ORDER SEEDS NOW !!!

Last week I talked about taking an inventory of your seeds. This week it is time to order seeds. It could take as much as four weeks to get the seeds you order, so don’t delay. If you want to plant seeds inside for transplanting outside later, you may need to plant some of them very soon. Peppers need to be planted right away because it takes several weeks for them to germinate, they are very slow growing. It is too early in Eastern Idaho to plant things like tomatoes and squash, but you should buy the seeds you need now. Many more people are starting to garden this year and the seeds will go fast.

I suggest you go to a local nursery, or seed store to see if their new seeds are in yet. I get very excited when I see the new seed displays and look at almost everything in the display. I like to try new things every year. This year I am trying red sweet corn and planting red onions from seed. I will plant the onions as early as possible even mid-April to see if they will grow large enough for green (purple) onions through the Summer and Fall.

The seeds that aren’t available at your local nursery, (or stores with garden centers) can be ordered from the Internet or seed catalogs. These sources will have different seeds and unique seeds and plants than you can’t get from your local nursery.

A great source on the Internet is www.gardenlist.com. This is a garden catalog list of several hundred catalogs. It is a wonderful way to search out garden catalogs you may not be familiar with. I recommend the catalogs www.totallytomato.com and www.jungseed.com. The Totally Tomato catalog has almost 300 varieties of tomatoes. They have pink, purple, orange, yellow and black tomatoes in all sizes. They also have the Hybrids and Heirlooms separated so it is easy to search for the type of tomato needed.

So this week, do more dreaming and buy what you are dreaming about.