I am not a master gardener. Far from it in fact. Nor do I find my garden therapudic. I'm lucky if my garden grows! Last year was a flop as we had a cold, wet spring that turned hot and dry. What did grow was decimated by rabbits. Everyone had trouble getting their garden to produce. People who'd been gardening in the area for years found themselves not having their usual success. I can say, however, they still did way better than me.
Gardening is not my favorite task. It really needs to move up in my favorites but that only works is I have some success. It does seem to be looking better this year so far. I have a good deal of cabbage and broccoli already planted. My tomatoes are started and just now putting out their first true leaves. I need to get peppers started, I've just been busy and limited on space.
My seeds... I don't buy seeds from places like Gurney's. I buy from places that have taken the Safe Seed Pledge or are actively preserving seed diversity. Baker Creek Seeds, High Mowing Seeds, Seed Savers, Sand Hill Preservation Center, others and sometimes direct from other farmers. And then I try to save seeds myself. In pioneering days, they didn't have a store to go get whatever they wanted, they saved their seeds and now it's not unusual to have a seed variety named after the family or person who preserved it. However, seed companies were fun as they'd take varieties like that and then give them some jazzy marketing name. Some history was lost that way. I do dislike it when history is lost...
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