A Seed Saver's Garden

[heirloomgal]

Keep wanting to post pics, but not enough energy left at the end of the day! lol (And no sun...which my device needs.)

But I'm excited enough at today's plant finds that I have enough energy to type! So...given the frosty, wet spring several of my well intentioned seed starting plans fell to the wayside. I didn't want to start a bunch of seed varieties and have no sun or heat which would prevent me from putting them outside - which was exactly what happened. Just too many problems with this years weather. So lots didn't get started. But today at a greenhouse I haven't gone to in many years I found a few gems - some nicely established celeriac plants for one! Been wanting to grow those for awhile and thought this year would be yet another miss. But no! Also some peach coloured double flowering hollyhocks & Osaka ornamental cabbages. Wowee!

Going to rain all weekend but I'm hoping to still get out there and shape the backyard beds in a raincoat. Then I can at least get in the cold tolerant crops like potatoes etc. And the funnest part of all is around the corner, figuring out where everything goes!!! And trying to make it look all pretty!

 

[Pulsegleaner]

One notable event. The one surviving bean plant from the first planting; despite still being very short (shorter, in fact, than any of the second planting,) is already covered with flower buds. Maybe our continued cold, rainy weather is stressing it to the point where it's gone into reproductive mode super early. It still might grow more (if I recall, all of the outcross beans are indeterminate pole), I suppose. Single cowpea plant is still alive as well.

In other news, the first two tomato pots (the yellow wild cherry and the unlabeled one,) are up, but not the third (the other unlabeled one,) So is the red berried nightshade, I think. I also may have one South African rosemary seedling (it a bit too small to see if it's a weed or not.

Rice beans are in spring stasis; they'll start growing when it gets warm. Ditto the guar (if it is guar, again, could be all weeds.)

Nothing from cucumbers yet, or oregano. Or wild peppers, for that matter.