Our Seed Selections

Just before Christmas I stumbled upon a great blog Northwest Edible Life.  It is full of useful information for urban gardeners and it is written with just the right sense of humor for my taste.  We were deep in the seed selection process and actually experience stress over it when I read this post.  It takes a very even handed and thoughtful approach to seed selection.

The bulk of our seeds came from Botanical Interests for no other reason that their selection was ample without being overwhelming and their seeds packets are beautiful and contain a lot of very useful information about growing each plant.  We also purchased several seed packets from Totally Tomatoes.  They offered a better selection of hybrids that we wanted as well as several larger variety tomatoes.  We also have several seeds left from Cornucopia Seeds that I bought at our local Ace Hardware when we were rushing the calendar to get a garden in last fall.  In all, this is what our seed selection looks like.

Seed	Year	Source	Notes
Arugula Rocket Salad	2013	Botanical Interests
Basil-Large Leaf Italian	2012	Botanical Interests
Beans-Blue Lake	2012	Cornucopia
Beans-Improved Tendergreen	2012	Cornucopia
Beans-Trio	2013	Botanical Interests	Bush bean yellow, green, purple
Beet-Early Wonder Tall Top	2012	Cornucopia
Beet-Ruby Queen	2012	Cornucopia
Beet-Early Wonder	2013	Botanical Interests
Beet-Gourmet Blend	2013	Botanical Interests	Variety of colors
Borage	2013	Botanical Interests	An edible flower that helps attact lots of bees
Buckwheat	2013	Botanical Interests	A type of green manure to grow and turn back into the soil
Carrot-Calliope Blend	2013	Botanical Interests	Multi Colored Carrots
Carrot-Little Finger	2012	Cornucopia
Carrot-Tendersweet	2012	Cornucopia
Chive	2013	Botanical Interests
Cilantro	2012	Botanical Interests
Cucumber-Lemon	2013	Botanical Interests
Cucumber-Orient Express II	2013	Totally Tomatoes
Dill	2013	Botanical Interests
Eggplant-Hansel Hybrid	2013	Totally Tomatoes
Kale-Italian Lacinato	2013	Botanical Interests
Kohlrabi-Purple White	2013	Botanical Interests
Leek-American Flag	2013	Botanical Interests
Lettuce-Buttercrunch	2012	Cornucopia
Lettuce-Mesclun Farmers Market Blend	2013	Botanical Interests
Onion-Flat of Italy	2013	Botanical Interests
Oregano	2013	Botanical Interests
Parsley	2012	Botanical Interests
Pea-Super Sugar Snap	2013	Botanical Interests
Pepper-Big Chile	2013	Totally Tomatoes
Pepper-Cayenne Purple	2013	Totally Tomatoes	A free packet that came with our order
Pepper-La Bomba Hybrid	2013	Totally Tomatoes
Pepper-Rainbow Blend Bell	2013	Totally Tomatoes
Radish-Cherry Belle	2013	Botanical Interests
Radish-Easter Egg Blend	2013	Botanical Interests
Rutabaga	2013	Botanical Interests
Sage	2013	Botanical Interests
Spinach-Correnta Hybrid	2012	Cornucopia
Squash-Easypick Zucchini	2013	Totally Tomatoes
Squash-Sunny Delight Scallop	2013	Totally Tomatoes
Swiss Chard-Bright Lights	2013	Botanical Interests
Swiss Chard-Fordhook	2012	Cornucopia
Thyme	2013	Botanical Interests
Tomato-Big Zac	2013	Totally Tomatoes
Tomato-Brandywine Red/Yellow	2012	Botanical Interests	These did not produce well in 2012, but they were SO tasty.  It's worth another go.
Tomato-Goliath	2013	Totally Tomatoes
Tomato-Heirloom Cherry Blend	2013	Totally Tomatoes	A free packet that came with our order
Tomato-Supersweet 100	2012	Botanical Interests	Bite size goodness in plentiful amounts.  Perferct for the smalls to eat off the plant.
Turnip	2013	Botanical Interests