Jody and I have begun for the first time to grow our own food, well some of our own food. A few weeks ago we ordered some seeds and transplants from the Seed Savers Exchange. SSE is an invaluable resource for maintaining a living collection of hierloom varieties of plants, both flowers and vegetables. Many of these varieties have beautifully unique shapes and colors as well as wonderfully variable flavors from the dumbed down, nitrogen ripened grocery store varieties. It's crazy how much of the food I've been eating until recently is lacking of so much natural flavor. Even if you can't grow your own, try to visit a farmer's market this summer and taste the captivating flavors of fresh, homegrown, local produce. It will change how you look at your food choices, you might even eat more vegies!
So, Jody and I have started to grow Sweet Genovese Basil, Purple Dark Opal Basil, Cilantro, Calabrese Broccoli, Monnopa Spinach, Yellow Borettana Onion, Cracoviensis Lettuce, and Rooster Spur Peppers. All of these started as little seeds about 2 weeks ago and have all broken the surface as of today. In addition we had 3 varieties of tomato transplants sent to us- Amish Paste (for tomato sauce), Mexico Midget (tasty little snackers), and Brandywine-Sudduth's Strain (for slicin' on burgers). All of these little puppies have finally started growing in size, even though we were worried at first that the Brandywine wasn't doing so hot. I've got to say (although I don't have any experience with it yet) it's kind of like raising little children. Although everything that I've seen shows that you can't just stick your kids in the window and squirt them with water from time to time and hope they grow up normal. But we'll keep an eye on these little guys and hopefully in a few months Jody and I can eat our green/purple/red younglings in culinary bliss. Stay tuned.
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