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So far this is what I have purchased for 2022. I still need to get lettuce, green beans and tomatoes. I have peas left from last year. I’ve been thinking about doing pinto beans to dry again this year. They take very little of my time and last time they produced great.
The onions and potatoes I have always gotten from our local farm store. I get a little excited when they get them in. Last year I bought 70 onion bulbs and twenty potatoes.
From now on after this year, I hope to not buy many seeds. It only takes a few seeds from each plant to save. Although last year I saved thousands of Pepper seeds and one hundred pumpkin seeds. Pepper seeds are overly plentiful and maybe the easiest to save in my experience. But someone knocked the trays off the shelf and the mice at them before I noticed. Yes, we have mice in the country. We know how to deal with them. No need to go jumping on the furniture.
I did save some 2021 calypso beans. They look like a cow pattern. So that’ll be an experiment to see if they grow the same. They’re heirloom, so they should grow the same bean every time. I bought a new packet though just Incase.
The plan is to let one of each plant, of all the heirloom seeds, go to seed. Then attempt to save seeds from them. Over time I will have a collection of seeds that is perfectly acclimated to my growing region. Just for myself. Not to sell.
Over the year, I randomly buy seeds starting disks and soil. I save all manner of containers and trays to use. I’ve tried saving money to buy things all at once. But for me, that never works well. So I buy them online throughout the year. You can never have too many seed starting disks or soil in my opinion. It’s very likely that I’ll use a couple hundred starting disks and 75-100 containers.
Last year, I had extra funds so I invested in a larger folding table and some of the bigger grow lights. But the 25 yrs before that, I grew everything on a couple of smaller folding tables infront of my south window. It’s not huge. But it worked. I grew everything we needed for tomatoes, lettuce, peppers, etc. that needed started indoors. I didn’t start them as early as I do now. We had more than enough food from the old way. My living room becomes a greenhouse. I love it every year.
Thanks for reading this boring stuff about gardening. 😂
