Posted on 12/17/2022 7:29:17 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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Sitting in dad’s room at rehab (mom just left - finally convinced her to do shifts) - wish I had brought my seed catalogs with me. I have gotten my nieces and little nephew the two books that you recommended for Christmas and in addition to that, I am getting them some seeds to go with it. They won’t have the seeds by Christmas, but that’s okay.
The Pinetree Gardens catalog had collections of six seeds for kids and I looked at the ideas they had and came up with my own. I don’t have the actual names for some but I’ll describe what I came up with:
Thumbelina carrots - round, great for snacking
‘Rattlesnake’ green beans
Yum Yum snacking peppers - small & sweet
Sugar snap peas - variety is very sweet, good snacks
Miniature pumpkins that will grow on a trellis (one niece has limited garden space)
Teddy Bear sunflowers - the true dwarf ones
I tried to pick very edible, snackable veggies, a flower & a pumpkin. The little guy who will pick/eat tomatoes green, ripe, or rotten should like the peppers & carrots for sure.
I have grown Teddy Bear sunflowers & they are adorable. Thought about a full size pumpkin for the girls, but I’ll let their mom deal with that - the small ones are cute for decorating & the girls are very artistic.
Boy, do seed package costs add up in a hurry! :-)
You are amazing! Thank you! I spent over an hour looking yesterday online.
LOL!!!
Happy to help :)
The wind all came here. 3-4 inches of snow but it was blowing all over the place.
Had to jump start Mrs. Petes Car. Supposed to warm up to the 40s and 50s next week! I will pull the covers off the few remaining plants and see if I can get any more growth before the New Year.
Sounds perfect!
We’ll do a thorough Seed Catalog Thread in January. So far I’ve gotten SSE, Seeds-n-Such and two from Jung’s; Vermont Bean Seed Company and Totally Tomatoes - which is probably my favorite catalog of them all.
Nothing from Baker Creek, yet - but last year’s is still in my stack of ‘Garden Porn,’ LOL!
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