Another New Year and time to talk about our 2018 Veggie Gardens!!

Well, I spent a few hours making out orders yesterday....I would have bought more, but I'm running out of space & money! Here's my veggie list: beans Jade & Gold Crop, beets Golden & Vulture, carrots Romance & Maverick, pickling cukes Boston, National, Eureka, & Pioneer, eggplant Slim Jim, lettuce Ice Queen & Merveille de Quatre Saisons, peas Sabre, basil & dill. I'm not starting any toms or peppers this year...getting lazy, I'll just buy them at WFF. For flowers I ordered cosmos, marigolds, glads, & dahlias...also 3 hostas, June....I'm digging out an old peony garden...too shady now, & am planting the hostas with others that I've already planted. Oh, also ordered purple & lavender Queen Anne's lace....can't wait to see how they turn out!

Seems like a nice veggie list to me and plenty of seeds to plant out. I don't blame you for not wanting to start your own peppers and tomatoes. It is a lot of work to start them and so much easier just to buy starts.

Forgot I also bought seeds for yellow squash & zucchini....tomorrow I'm headed to Ocean State to see what they have ....pkts are supposed to be 40% off.....

I never get out to the local nurseries this early to check the seed selections. I really should as things might not be so picked over and I might have a better selection.

The bad part of buying seeds on line is that no one place has everything wanted so one ends up with multiple shipping charges.

Those shipping charges add up! I bought flower seeds at Ocean State...cosmos, marigolds, zinnias...also some basil....

RobinD said:Those shipping charges add up! I bought flower seeds at Ocean State...cosmos, marigolds, zinnias...also some basil....

Yes, those shipping charges are annoying when you have to pay a bunch of them. I wouldn't mind if I could get everything at once from one place but that is never how it turns out.

Don't forget Christmas tree shops for seeds.. if you have one near .. besides HD and lowes.. walmart

Walmart's & Lowe's are the closest to me, although both are 30 min. away......I'm always on the lookout for interesting dahlias!

Been buying some dahlias from Ramonna .. in Maine .. on facebook .. she has some nice stuff

Sounds good.....will take a look.....is there a special address I need?

Hopefully this link works
https://www.facebook.com/group...

Faraway flowers

Thank you....have ordered lilies from them in the past!

Seed catalogs are coming in fast and furious now... They don't really make narrowing things down an easier. Seems I see 3 or 4 new things I'd like to try while searching if they have the stuff I already know I want....

I usually order seeds for a new veggie & a new flower...new to me, that is....this year I ordered seed for Slim Jim eggplant which I've never grown, & for Dara, a Queen Anne's Lace in shades of pink & purple.

Started some sweet Spanish onion seeds 3 days ago.

March 1st I start my tomato and pepper plants from seed. Been doing that for a few years now.

I'll be starting the eggplant the 1st of March......not starting anything else....all direct seed....will buy the tomatoes & peppers......WFF has a great assortment around the middle of May.

RobinD said:I'll be starting the eggplant the 1st of March......not starting anything else....all direct seed....will buy the tomatoes & peppers......WFF has a great assortment around the middle of May.

I have some eggplant seeds to start also. Never tried to start eggplant before.

But I REALLY have a lot of pepper seeds. I went nuts late last spring ordering pepper seeds. I can't possibly start all those seeds as I don't have the room to plant that many peppers.

Still the peppers were fabulous last year. I am looking forward to growing the Japanese peppers again. Both the ones I had last season and some new to me ones.

And I am also especially excited about the Lunchbox pepper seeds.

I liked the lunchbox ones as they were small...just right for a salad. I'm hoping WFF has the Japanese peppers this year, I'd like to try some.