Seeds

January is seed starting time in Southern California. I placed my orders last month and received my seeds last week. I placed most of my seed order with Baker Creek. The rest was with Seed Savers Exchange. However, I just received Johnny's Seed catalogue and I think I am  also going to place an order with them. They have a lot of things that I really want to grow, such as white sage and onion sprouts. The white sage is one of my favorite things to collect when I go hiking in the So. Cal mountains. Most commonly it is used by Native Americans for religious purposes, but it makes a wonderful tea and has amazing medicinal properties. The onion sprouts are just so damn tasty. I find myself craving them all the time. The sprout seller at the farmers market sells onion sprouts for $1 an ounce. That is crazy expensive- I am totally going to grow them myself.  

Ok, so back to seeds- today I started seeds for tomatoes and peppers. I used a combination of peat pots, plastic containers and peat discs for planting, figuring I can see which method gets the best results.

I planted the following tomato seeds:

Paul Robeson

Tennessee Green 

Reisentraube 

German Red Strawberry

Red Zebra 

Yellow Stuffer 

And these varieties of peppers:

Hot:

Early Jalapeno

Tam Jalapeno

Anaheim

Caribbean Red Habanero 

Ancho Gigantea 

Serrano Tampequino 

Sweet: 

Golden Cal Wonder

Wisconsin Lakes

Napoleon Sweet

Italian Pepperoncini 

Quadrato D'Asti Rosso 

Now I can't wait to watch which ones are going to come in first!  I better check in on my worms and see if I have enough humus to start making a tea for my little seedlings.