Seeds

I decided to start my garden from seeds this year - no seedlings or small plants or big plants or anything that is already up and growing. Just seeds. Round, long, short, skinny, curled, purple, green, brown, hard, soft, blue, oval, square seeds.

After reading a bunch of books about container gardening, Zone 10 (where we live), soil qualities, and sun, shade, and water requirements I settled on a mix of flowers, herbs, and vegetables for this year.

What can you look forward to seeing pictures of in the future, you ask?  Well, here's the list (in no particular order) that I finally settled on after much researching:

• Cilantro
• Echinacea (purple coneflower)
• Cornflower (dwarf, blue)
• Calendula officinalis (pot marigold)
• Dwarf nasturtium (jewel mix) 
• Carrots (little fingers) 
• Radish (cherry belle) 
• Sweet Pea (bijou) 
• Swiss chard (ruby red) 
• Sunflower (dwarf, sunspot)

As of this afternoon (3/14/10 at 4 pm pacific time) everything is in a container, patted down, watered and reaping the benefits of a warm sunny afternoon. Let the countdown begin to see what comes up first!!!