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heirloomgal
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It was a fantastic mail day, so many seed parcels arrived! 
The devil's claw (martynia) seeds came in! That's been on a wish list for awhile so - pretty exciting!! The specialty sunflowers, Sonja and Taiyo. I love the big, deep brown centers on Taiyo. One of the best cutting sunflowers in my opinion and Sonya is a diminutive sunflower, and only grows to 3 or 4 feet.
I wanted to save seeds for both, but they're probably a crossing species so it may be just a year to enjoy their beauty. Gotta do some research and see what's possible.
Some of the groundcherries! Somehow in French 'cherries of the earth' sounds more poetic!
Got some Elfin cherry tomatoes too, which I've read about from @Zeedman 's posts. So many tomatoes I'm not sure I'll get to it this year, another wait and see variety. I'm quite curious about these peas as well as that tomato.
I'm presently strategizing how best to grow these carrots. I don't really need to get them 3 feet long or anything, but longer than the average carrot would be neat. Baker Creek reports that they can get to 6 feet! It's the taste reviews that made me curious to try them really - apparently they're very good, above average even. Need to find my deepest garden spots. I thought those tomatoes looked good and it seemed crazy to order only one packet of carrots, so I added them in.
I need some hope right now because this is my garden today.
The devil's claw (martynia) seeds came in! That's been on a wish list for awhile so - pretty exciting!! The specialty sunflowers, Sonja and Taiyo. I love the big, deep brown centers on Taiyo. One of the best cutting sunflowers in my opinion and Sonya is a diminutive sunflower, and only grows to 3 or 4 feet.
I wanted to save seeds for both, but they're probably a crossing species so it may be just a year to enjoy their beauty. Gotta do some research and see what's possible.
Some of the groundcherries! Somehow in French 'cherries of the earth' sounds more poetic!
Got some Elfin cherry tomatoes too, which I've read about from @Zeedman 's posts. So many tomatoes I'm not sure I'll get to it this year, another wait and see variety. I'm quite curious about these peas as well as that tomato.
I'm presently strategizing how best to grow these carrots. I don't really need to get them 3 feet long or anything, but longer than the average carrot would be neat. Baker Creek reports that they can get to 6 feet! It's the taste reviews that made me curious to try them really - apparently they're very good, above average even. Need to find my deepest garden spots. I thought those tomatoes looked good and it seemed crazy to order only one packet of carrots, so I added them in.
I need some hope right now because this is my garden today.
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