Our Kitchen Garden seeds are ordered and on their way.

We order from two catalogs each year to get a selection, and we’ve never had a problem with the seeds. We also like both of the company’s because the seeds they sell work very well in our Maritime Pacific Northwest Climate.

The companies are Territorial Seed Company and Nichols Garden Nursery.

We’ve taken a risk and ordered seeds for three vegetables we have never been able to grow here before–peppers, eggplant and melons. We are hoping the hoop house/poly tunnel will help us out here, in addition to giving us a larger and better crop of tomatoes. We also purchased Brussels Sprout seeds. All of us around here love them, so it seems a waste not to grow our own and hopefully turn others on to the great taste of fresh sprouts. We also like the verticality of them, given the tiny size of our garden patch this year.

The kitchen garden is both about seasonality and maximizing space. There is no reason not to be able to grow decent vegetables in any reasonably sized space–certainly enough for a family of 4 and neighbors.  We tend to splash out a bit more because many of the vegetables and herbs we grow make their way onto the plates of our customers or as barter items for things we can’t grow or produce. This year will not only be about experimentation with the poly-tunnel, but also adding more value to what we do produce by further processing the items.

We’ll keep you informed.

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