i ordered my seeds!

this is what i ordered this year:

candy hybrid onion
redwing red onion
bunny tails ornamental grass
tarahumara sunflower
lemon queen sunflower
butterflyweed
amish paste tomato
mortgage lifter tomato
stevia
minnesota midget muskmelon
alaska mix nasturtium


i've grown the candy onions before. they're sweet onions, and they are absolutely FABULOUS. being able to grow my own sweet onions this far north is awesome. not so awesome, monsanto owns the rights to candy onion. it is most assuredly NOT a gmo seed, but it is a hybrid (not open pollinated). it was developed and introduced long before monsanto bought the company that made it. but i really hate monsanto. i waffled back and forth on trying a different sweet onion seed, but wasnt impressed with what little i could find. so i stuck with what i know. maybe in another year or two i can find something better to try.

i've grown the amish paste before and prefer them over the other types of tomatoes i've grown for sauce. i need to make more tomato sauce this year, i'm all out now. i decided to try the mortgage lifter for fun and variety. i have trouble with septoria leaf spot on my tomato leaves and of all the many tomato varieties, only ONE has any resistance to that. the iron lady hybrid, which i purchased last year. it was ok. it did have resistance. but it didnt make very many tomatoes. and if i'm saucing, i need LOTS. last year was also not a very hot summer either tho. and tomatoes like it better when we have warm summers.

i think i have enough leftover seeds of everything else.

to get everything i wanted, i had to order from
seed savers exchange http://www.seedsavers.org/onlinestore/
baker creek seeds http://www.rareseeds.com/store/
park seeds http://parkseed.com/ (where i got the candy onion seeds from)

but i also perused the catalogs of
seeds of change http://www.seedsofchange.com/Home.aspx
pinetree gardens http://www.superseeds.com/
high mowing organic seeds http:/www.highmowingseeds.com/
territorial seeds http://www.territorialseed.com/
abundant life seeds http://www.abundantlifeseedscom/
the natural gardening company http:/www.naturalgardening.com/
john scheepers kitchen garden seeds http:/www.kitchengardenseeds.com/

and recycled catalogs from about 6 other places that didnt have either the 'safe seed pledge' or state that the seeds were guaranteed 'non-gmo'. i get SO many damn seed catalogs.

this year the new things i'm going to try are the 'bunny tails' ornamental grass, and the butterfly weed. most of my gardening experience is with veggies. so these are outside of what i know. it will be another grand experiment.

i need to get the back room cleaned up and ready to start seeds now that its february.