The Winter Season #4: Salt Spring Seeds - The Enticement

Been one busy lady … vegetable garden should be yummie this summer! Are those the currant tomatoes you mentioned in the other thread?

I’m on the other side of the coin so to speak … been making a list of perennials I want to add this year … ordered a couple already that I think I would have trouble finding in our garden shops here. Be sure to let me know what flowers you are looking at … :-)

Fun isn’t it!!!!

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

lots of fun.

some of the plants listed above are perennials so that is exciting – I get veggies/beans AND perennials.
I’ve tried to look at the herbs and flowers a couple times and I think I’m on overload.. I’ll have to postpone that for a bit.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Yah, I had heard (not being a veg garden person) that a lot of the vegetables are perennials. That would excite me as well … cuz the good Lord Himself knows I get excited when I know my flowers are coming back year after year!

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

to me, it’s like multi-tasking—I plant my flowerbeds and my veggie garden in one “dig”.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

That would make total sense and besides it is like once you “get going” you just want it all done “now”. Such satisfaction when it is all planted.

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

oh, and yes.. the currant tomatoes, I mentioned before (I think).

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Don’t pay too much for flax seeds…You can buy organic ones by the pound at any grocery store for about $3 :)

-- Xploreorganics, 5b Canada, LFD 06-20

good point.. these are $3 for an ounce

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Just visited the site.How exciting!
Happened that last night I was given to understand by our friend that I would be getting some organic seeds from Regina over the next month. Do not know which ones so it will be just like Christmas!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

oooooh lucky you!!
I can’t wait to hear what you get!!!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Will let you know!!

-- Eklectic, Follow my Bliss, South East Ontario 5a

I placed my order!!
now… to wait for the seeds.. and then to wait ‘til I can plant them.

This is so exciting… I usually just grab some packages from the store.

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Debbie, didja order the flax? We seem to grow an abundance of the lookalike chicory around roadsides and the like in these parts; running rampant as weeds.

-- Living on the square...Metro Detroit

I think I decided not to order the flax for this year.

I love seeing the chicory along the roads…. it’s the roots that are important, isn’t it?

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Yep! Here’s a nice link on various uses of chicory: http://www.redbagcollection.com/aboutchicory.html

-- Living on the square...Metro Detroit

they’ve arrived!!

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)

Hot Diggy Dog!!!!!!! :-)

-- "A perfect garden is just a garden to be in-perfection. Mornings to work on it and evenings to pause and look at it." Southeast Michigan, Zone 5a/5b

after Scott mentioned the use of quinoa in a soup (I think it was soup) I thought I’d look it up and see what I am planting this year.

This was the first site I found (turns out to be by Salt Spring Seeds -which is where I purchased the seeds).

After reading this I am reminded why I put it (and amaranth) on my list.

• Quinoa and amaranth are two very old, high-protein plants
• Quinoa and amaranth are treated as grains although they have broad leaves, unlike the true grains and corn, which are grasses
• Their leaves are among the most nutritious of vegetable greens
• fruit or grain is quite special. The protein content of these two foods has a essential amino acid balance that is near the ideal. They both come closer to meeting the genuine protein requirements of the human body than either cow’s milk or soybeans. They are high in the amino acid lysine, which is lacking in most cereals such as wheat, sorghum, corn and barley
• Both quinoa and amaranth are quite adaptable, disease-free and drought-tolerant plants
• Quinoa’s unique flower hues are most striking at a close distance around dawn or dusk, while amaranth’s flamboyant bronze and burgundy tones are dazzling in bright sunshine
• For most southern Canadian and northern U.S. sites, the best time to plant quinoa is late April to late May (needing cool nights)
• For southern Canada and the northern U.S., late May or early June planting is best for Amaranth

-- - Debbie, SW Ontario Canada (USDA Hardiness Zone: 5a)