Here we go...

Tomato:

Early Girl

Sungold

JetStar

Supersonic

Peppers:

Mucho Nacho Jalapeno

Ashe County Pimento

Early Calwonder

Hybrid Sweet Bell Mix

Cucumber:

Armenian

Melons:

Sugar Baby watermelon

Crane melon

Okra:

Stewart Zeebest

Southern Pea:

Pink Eye Purple Hull

Squash:

Seminole pumpkin

Waltham butternut

Pole Bean:

Black Seeded Kentucky Wonder (trying something new. anyone have opinions on this one?)

Bush Beans:

Fowler (also new. Any opinions?)

Blue Lake (leftover seed)

Maybe tomatillos IF the mood is right on March 1. They are consistently difficult as seedlings. They seem weaker than tomatoes. Already have seed: Purple tomatillo and Dr. Wyche's yellow.

I'm still in the vague planning stages, but I've narrowed it down to what I *ought* to grow.

Tomatoes: 7 in ground and 3 or 4 in containers

Peppers: 4 or 5 in ground and 3 or 4 in containers (or plant more in containers and use that area for tomatoes)

Beans: I have a bunch of varieties that I need to use up before they aren't any good, so I may just dump them & see what happens. Otherwise, I have an area where I can get 6 or 7 plants in and hopefully not take over the world.

Cucumber 2 or 3 in ground, and I have a couple that supposedly will grow in containers. Either that, or I just plant them & some squash & let them overrun the front yard.

Herbs: still working, but I'm sure I'll be trying a bunch.

Jen, I see your note about herbs... I'm ordering a few varieties of dwarf basil and one dwarf dill if you want seeds. They're all from Richters unless otherwise noted.

Small leaf Basil:

Aristotle

Dolce Fresca

Greek Dwarf (Baker Creek)

Genovise-like leaves (if I'm reading right):

Gecofure

Genial

Lettuce-leaf (but compact plants):

Mammoth (SESE)

Dwarf dill:

Compatto

FYI Johnny's has a container dill called Ella that I like. Megan I know you don't want to order from a lot of places. What is shipping at Richters? I've always wondered.

Megan, I'm always game to try new basils. If you have a few seeds leftover or an extra plant, I'd love to have some.

If there is a Question mark, I havent actually bought the seeds yet

Amaranth

Calaloo

Edible Amaranth, Asia Red ?

Edible Amaranth, Tenderleaf?

Amaranth, Chinese Multicolor Spinach ?

Beans, Cow Pea (mostly I will randomly plant these on cattle panels at the edge of the beds. Probably wont plant them all. Iron and clay and Hardee were bought for groundcover)

Bettersnap

Big Red Ripper (Mandy)

Black-eyed peas

Chinese Red Noodle Asparagus (Yardlong) Bean

Georgia Long

Green Pod Red Seed Asparagus (Yardlong) Bean

Hardee

Haricots Rouge Burkina du Faso

Iron and Clay

Kentucky Red

Lady Peas

Long Bean Taiwan Black Seeded

Penny Rile Cow Pea

pink eye, purple hull

Whippoorwill

Black seed, nigella sativa

Cucumber (plan is to mingle these with cowpeas)

Armenian

Ashley Cucumber

Barese

County Fair

Diva

Eureka Hybrid

Greenfingers

H19 little leaf

Lemon

Marketmore76

Salad Bush hybrid

Suyo Long

Vertina

Eggplant (the eggplant experiment. If we don't like these I don't have to grow it any more)

Black Beauty

Black Diamond

Florida Market

Mitoyo

Grain Sorghum

Greens, Warm Season

Balady Aswan Celtuce

GOLDGELBER PURSLANE

Jewels of Opar

manihot, hibiscus

Purslane, Golden

Purslane, Organic Tall

Egyptian spinach

Lettuce (these all had slow bolt or heat resistant in their descriptions. They are still going to be spring plantings. I have too many seeds, so I may do the living mulch thing this year)

Adrianna Lettuce

Anuenue

Australian Yellow Looseleaf

Black seeded Simpson

blush batavians

Buttercrunch Butterhead

Carioca summer crisp on sale $1

Cherokee

CIMMARON

Cougar Summer Crisp Lettuce

Drunken Woman Lettuce

Edox

jericho

Merveille De Quatre Saisons Butterhead Lettuce (OG) packet

Midnight Ruffles Leaf Lettuce

Muir

Nevada. crisphead

New Red Fire

Quan Yin Lettuce, OSSI

Red Sails Looseleaf Lettuce (

Simpson Elite Lettuce

summer mix

Summertime

Mustard

Grow in the bed with nematoade problems

Okra (I either have to pare this down or we will be comparing okras in small plantings)

Becks Big Buck

Burmese

Evertender

Green Velvet

Jade

Stewart Zeebest

Aunt Hettie's Red

Jing Orange‘

Peppers

Czechoslovakian black pepper

Guajillo

Jalapeno Early

Joe's Long Cayenne

Alma Paprika

Charleston Belle

Chocolate Cake

Figitelli Sicilia, Sweet Pepper

Golden Greek Pepperoncini

Red Cheese Pepper

Sweet Pimento

Spinach, Summer

New Zealand Spinach

Malabar Spinach

Squash, Summer

Early Bulam summer squash

Meot Jaeng I Ae

Teot Bat Put

Squash, Winter

Black Futsu

Thai Kang Kob Winter squash

Seminole Pumpkin

Amy, the shipping is $6 flat rate for a seed only order. Right now my order is only about $13, so that makes it pricey. Of course, I'll have seeds for a few years just with one packet which makes it a little better, I guess. Or it's just my way of spinning it so I can justify it! I might look through again and see if there is anything I might want to try next year and order them now.

Jen, I'll definitely have extras!

Amy, with all those plants, how do you tell whats, what? I am not sure what all I will be planting, but I expect it will be less than 25 different kinds of plants.

I bought more seeds and another bag of potting soil today at the Mena, Ar. farmers coop. A few days ago I bought a few packs of seeds and a bag of potting soil at the Van Buren, Ar farmers coop.. I feel that I get a good measure of seeds at the coop, especially the Mena coop.

I will probably only have one plant of each thing, except lettuce, okra and greens. I'm still figuring out what my favorites are. I like trying new things, so I end up with too many plants.

Jennifer, Fowler is a really good bean---good flavor, good productivity, tons of lush, large leaves that shade the ground beneath themselves. I cannot stress how much this plant tolerates heat and drought. It produced a great crop for me in 2011 when we were in the 90s and above for all of June, July and August and had highs of 100-112 (officially, but 115 at our house) for 76 days that summer with very little rain (less than 12" for the whole year through at least mid-August). Most bean plants won't set beans well once your highs hit the mid-90s, but this one produced incredibly well in extreme heat and drought when other plants (not just beans) just laid down and died. Chickens were dropping dead from the heat when I was away at fires, and yet this plucky little bean variety shrugged off the extreme heat, extreme and exceptional drought, grasshoppers, spider mites, and everything else that Mother Nature through at it and didn't drop blossoms. It just kept producing. It was rather stunning to witness how well it did.

Larry, I love shopping at farm co-ops. My favorites are the ones with seeds in cans or plastic bins where you use a little scoop to pour the seeds you want into little paper envelopes, and you write the name and how many scoops you got on your seed packet yourself. There aren't many stores left around here like that.

Amy, I cannot imagine where you're going to put it all. I do like packing in plants as tightly together as I dare....the less empty space left available between mature plants, the less I have to mulch and weed and I'm all for that.

Megan, I don't see much difference between YOLO Wonder and Cal Wonder either. I do think our hot weather often makes sweet pepper fruit stay on the small side at least until autumn, when cooler temperatures and usually a return to more rainfall give us slightly larger peppers again.

I know y'all will find this hard to believe, but we went to Wal-Mart this morning and I didn't even go over to the Garden Center to see what they had. Bizarre for me, right? In my own defense, we had grandchildren with us shopping for their mom's birthday presents so I was staying focused on that and only on that. There was nothing good in the mail today---no seed orders being delivered, no new catalogs.

January is the hardest month, but at least we have planning, dreaming and seed ordering to get us through it.

Dawn

Thanks for your review on Fowler, Dawn. I also went to Walmart and did not look in the garden center. My feet were hurting and we had already done so many errands. However, I did look at Lowes. They had two seed displays. No JetStar or Supersonic.

I'm tired. Made two "from scratch" soups to take to my Mom's house tomorrow for lunch. We are still without heat and I don't want to have guests without heat. Not that my family are guests...but it will be more comfortable at her house. Sent Ethan to spend the night there. It's not too bad here, but if it weren't for all the animals, both Tom and I would stay the night at Mom's too. I can't leave the animals alone. Space heaters and blankets make it fine. We can't sleep with the space heaters on, but heating up the rooms before sleeping work fine. It will be repaired on Monday. (This thread is probably not the place for that comment, but I'm not moving it)

Who is ready to start some seeds?! Mentally ME.