Re: Using Mason Jars for seed storage. I have four half-pint jars where I add leftover seed at the end of the season. Since the seeds are all small, they keep their viability for quite a number of years.
Leaf Lettuce Mix
Spinach
Mesclun Mix
Beneficial Bug Mix
At the end of the planting season, if I have little bits left of any of these items, they go into the appropriate Mason Jar and I use them the next season, or over winter if I’m growing salad greens in my grow light rack.
I love the Leaf Lettuce Mix. It’s always a surprise as to what I get, and all of the various lettuce colors together look so cool. (I am not a PURIST by any stretch when it comes to my garden.)
DIANA’S BENEFICIAL BUG MIX:
Cilantro
Dill (’Bouquet’ short variety)
Blue Bachelor Buttons
Orange or Yellow Calendula
Cosmos (any SHORT variety/color)
Persian Carpet Zinnia
Borage (just a little; it readily self-seeds!)
Mix together a standard-size packet of each seed, but go easy on the Borage. Trust me! I start this seed mix in 4” pots than either put a ‘plug’ of them here and there in garden beds or grow four, 4” pots to a big pot situated somewhere in the garden. These varieties bring in lovely things like Lacewings and REAL Ladybugs and other GOOD BUGS that will keep the BAD BUGS under control in your garden.
If you plant extra for cutting, this combo makes for the sweetest, prettiest little bouquet on your kitchen table. It’s a WIN/WIN! :)
Love that.. .the flowers list...I love borage...
Cosmos grows reliably in my south of Tampa area, but tends to be short-lived.
Ageratum is basically a blue-flowered weed it grows so well here.
I spread out my Queen Sophia marigolds so I should have a lovely bed of them in about a month.
My herbs are growing well.