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Garden Planning & Hometown Seeds

2/26/10

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Are you planning your summer garden yet? We attempted a garden last year and it was a huge FAIL. However, we’re persistent and we’ll try again this year. I’ve been receiving my garden porn (ie: seed catalogs) in the mail. I drool over them. The photography is gorgeous, the veggies and flowers are all beautiful and I want nothing more than for winter to be over so I can play in the dirt. Hopefully, this year, we’ll actually see some product from all our hard work.

As I’ve been thinking about and researching my garden I decided I wanted to try to grow only heirloom and non-genetically modified seeds and definitely no seeds by Monsanto. If you are not familiar with the Monsanto name I recommend a Google search. If you care at all about your food supply you might want to learn about the Monsanto company. In my quest I’ve come across some wonderful companies. I received these catalogs in the mail last month.

I love flipping through them and planning and plotting my garden. The Urban Farm is a magazine that I’ve recently started buying–love the content.

As I continued to search I came across HomeTown Seeds. Hometown Seeds caters to the small home gardener and offers a wonderful variety of seeds. I contacted them and they gladly sent me a variety of seeds for my review.
One of the most interesting things on their site is their Survival Seeds. If you’re a beginner like me or just not sure of what to plant the survival seeds offer a great variety.

They also provide this GMO statement:

“Seeds are the core of our business and vital to life on our planet. We must protect this foundation as a safe and genetically stable source for future generations. We pledge that we will not knowingly buy or sell genetically engineered seeds. We are not confident in the safety of GMO seeds and therefore will not sell them to our valued customers. We believe they are being released for public use prematurely. More research and testing is necessary to further assess the potential risks of genetically engineered seeds.”

There is a wide variety of vegetables, perennials, annuals, herbs, and wild flowers. I want to purchase more of their wildflower mix and plant at the very back of my property for added color.

In my packet I received:

~Wildlife Flower Mix
~Shasta Daisy Alaska
~Snapdragon
~Four O’Clocks Marvel of Peru
~Casaba Melon Golden Beauty
~Carrots Purple Haze Hybrid
~Tomato Yellow Pear
~Lettuce Gourmet Mix
~Broccoli Waltham
~Cilantro Slow Bolt

Each packet has the germination, planting depth, spacing and any special instructions so even a newbie like me can figure it out. I can’t wait to get the seeds started. I’ll be sure to give you an update on my success or failure.

Are you familiar with Hometown Seeds? If not, I would recommend stopping by their site and browsing.

What are you planning this year? Do you have any tips you’d like to share?

Comments

  1. Bonnie @ House of Grace says

    March 3, 2010 at 2:06 am

    great tips!!! I am going to follow you!!! Thanks for entering the GET CLEAN giveaway!!! Good Luck!!!

  2. Susan says

    February 27, 2010 at 2:41 pm

    thanks so much for the "google reader" info and for stopping by:) Have a great weekend!

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