Heirloom Seeds

Last year, I played around with a few tomato plants and herbs bought from Walmart and a few of the local nurseries. Over the winter months, I read a few books and magazines on gardening and I thought that I'd like to try my hand at growing heirloom veggies from seed. I did an Internet search and came up with a company called Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. I was astounded at the number of varieties of different types of vegetables.

A few months back I purchased seeds for:

• Emerald Evergreen Tomatoes
• Stevia (leaves taste like sugar)
• Toothache Plant (supposed to enhance the immune system, improve digestion, and help with nausea)
• Borage (leaves that taste like cucumbers and are added to salads; pretty flowers, too)
• Lemon Cucumbers
• Yellow Strawberries
  

The tomatoes shot up right away. I lost track of which was stevia and which was borage. I guess I'll figure that out when they come up fully. Kev and I already planted the tomatoes and cucumbers, but we're waiting for the others to mature a little more before they go in the ground.

I then bought some small plants from Walmart and some neighborhood nurseries:

• "Early Girl" and "Beefsteak" Tomatoes (in a planter, but I think they will be transplanted in "the field" where they will get more light and growing room)
• Cherry Tomatoes
• Sweet Basil
• Eggplants - deep purple and ghost white
• Thai Basil - withering : (
• Lemon Verbena : -) smells divine
• 2 Peppermint plants that are growing all over the place
• Sage
• Thyme
• 2 Zucchini
• Peas
• Beans (from seed)
  
• 1 Cayenne pepper & 1 Jalapeno pepper plant
• 4 small Red Bell Pepper plants and 2 Green Bell Pepper plants
• Slicing cucumbers
• a variety of Carrots (which I'm not sure I even started from seed yet...00ps)
• Broccoli (from seed)
• Watermelon (from seed)

A friend of mine at work also gave us a bunch of garlic chives to plant.

This is all quite a departure from the few tomato plants and herb window garden I'm used to.