So far this week has been spectacular! I’ve been taking my lunch outside, walking very slowly to and from the coffee shop, and generally enjoying being outside without four or five layers of clothes for the first time in what feels like years. Naturally, today is the perfect kind of day to talk about gardening. After hearing about Sustainable Seed Co from Kristen of Life Over Grad School, I spent a remarkable percentage of my grad student wages on vegetable and herb seeds. I started them almost as soon as they came in, and now they’re germinating away in one of the sunniest windows of our house (which happens to be in the guest bedroom, safe from curious cats). This morning when I went in to water the mostly bare dirt, I snapped some pictures of the first seedlings to poke their heads out of the soil. The first brave souls are broccoli, French green lentils, and sugar snap peas–all green things! If that’s not a sign that spring is around the corner, then I don’t know what is.
I know the tag says bell pepper, but these are actually baby broccoli sprouts.
These sugar snap pea seeds were the size of chickpeas, so I'm not surprised they sprouted first.
Lentils are, by far, my favorite legume, but fancy varieties are hard to find here. Growing them myself only seemed natural!
Along with these little guys, I ordered two fancy types of eggplant, at least six varieties of tomato, cucumber, yellow squash and zucchini, spaghetti squash, bell pepper, red and yellow and green onions, garlic, potatoes, watermelon, pumpkins, and other things I’m sure I’m forgetting. I devoted an entire row (six whole plants) to san marzano tomatoes, and I plan on having a canning party at some point this summer so that we’ll have enough to last us until next year (hopefully!). What are you growing this year?
