Getting Started

Ordering supplies

Now that you know what your going to plant you need to decide whether you are going to plant all seeds or a combination of seeds and plants. We want to grow all of our plants from seed(except the strawberries). Some seeds and bulbs can of course be sown directly in the garden(beans, cucumbers. beets, peas, radishes, onions, etc.), but we like to put out well established plants(with a few exceptions(radishes for instance)) as plants seem to perform better. This is the right time to order your seeds, plants, and indoor growing supplies(if you intend to start your own plants from seed). While we do have a favorite supplier we still have to shop at a couple of different places each year to get exactly what we are looking for. Below is a list of the seeds, plants, and supplies that we need. While your list is different from mine, this is still the right time for all of us to get our orders in. I am including prices we pay and suppliers we use. All of this information will be included on the accounting page so that we can see how much we spent on our garden in 2009.

Plants and seeds

Item	Cost	unit	Supplier
tomatoes
roma cherry early girl better boy	1.95 2.95 2.95 2.75	pkg. 150-seeds pkg. 25-seeds pkt. 30-seeds pkt. 30-seeds	Gurney's Henry Field's Gurney's Gurney's
bush beans	3.45	pkt. 2 oz.	Gurney's
squash
yellow crookneck butternut acorn	2.95 1.95 1.95	pkt. 25-seeds pkt. 25-seeds pkt. 25-seedsHenry Fields	Gurney's Gurney's Henry Field's
broccoli	1.95	pkt. 150-seeds	Gurney's
cucumbers	1.95	pkt. 35-seeds	Henry Field's
beets	1.55	pkt. 400-seeds	Gurney's
peppers
jalapeno sweet banana bell	1.95 2.25 2.95	pkt. 100-seeds pkt. 100-seeds pkt. 35-seeds	Henry Field's Henry Field's Gurney's
okra	already have seed
radishes	1.95	pkt. 500-seeds	Gurney's
leaf lettuce	2.25	pkt. 1000-seeds	Gurney's
swiss chard	1.75	pkt. 200-seeds	Henry Field's
TOTAL COST	$39.45

supplies

Item	Cost	quantity ordered	total cost	Supplier
standard propagation tray	1.49	4	5.96	home harvest.com
cell inserts 2 cell 4 cell 6 cell	.99 .99 .99	4 6 4	3.96 5.94 3.96	home harvest.com home harvest.com home harvest.com
humidity domes 2 inch 6 inch	3.49 5.95	4 2	13.96 11.90	home harvest.com home harvest.com
potting soil	6.49	1	6.49	home harvest.com
TOTAL COST			$46.21

You may have noticed that if all of the seeds planted were to survive we would have an awful lot of plants. We will lose some and any other extras can easily be sold. It is not uncommon to get most if not all of the money you spent on seed back from the sale of plants and still have a lot of seeds left. Some of the things I wanted were not available at this time but that is not unusual. Things like sweet potatoes will not be available until early in the year.