2024 Plan

Currently in the Seed Freezer

I met a Piedmont Master Gardner at the Gordon Avenue Library plant swap and she recommended freezer storage for dried out seeds. We will see if it works.

Store bought:

• Peanuts
• Delphinium
• Sugar snap peas
• Cherokee wax beans
• Scarlet Runner beans
• Amaranth
• Kentucky Wonder Snap Bean

Harvested from the yard last year:

• Long decorative grass of unknown variety
• Sunflower seeds
• Zinnia seeds
• Great Northern beans
• Hollyhock
• Echinacea
• Black eyed susan
• Sweet pepper

Composting

We currently compost three ways:

• Using our Lomi for kitchen scrapes to create both biologically fertile compost and biologicially infertile compost. The infertile compost goes directly into various garden beds. The biologically fertile compose goes into our composting bin.
• Our compost bin. This is a trash can with holes drilled in its side and bottoms. It’s lid is secured with a cord and a concrete block. We put yard waste, kitchen scraps (after being processes from the Lomi on its setting that allows bacteria to live), shredded newspaper, and brown paper bags. Around March we will add red worms to the bin.
• Black Bear Composting. A local composting company who picks up household compost every two weeks. We use them compost bones, seeds/popcorn kernals, and other food stuff the Loomi can’t handle. We also use them to compost yard waste when our backyard bin overflows.

Seed ordering

I am currently selecting seeds to order from The Whole Seed catalogue.

Annuals

• Sunflowers
• Zinnias
• Peas
• Beans
• Tomatoes
• Peppers
• Carrots

Perennials

• Rose bush
• Lilac
• Lavender
• Poppies
• Mums
• Hollyhock
• Echinacea
• Black eyed susans
• Yarrow
• Tulips
• Daffodils
• More to come…