My Package Came !

See what I got!

I ordered from a place called Gourmet Seed International, LLC

SO far i am very impressed. Great shipping, fast, good prices with decent selection of interesting plants.  

I spent $38.18 (with shipping included)

i got the following…

 (one packet of each) 

Lettuce Taglio a Foglia Liscia

Lettuce Green salad bowl

Rampion

Cress-american land

Dandelion zxdio

Chicory da taglio bionda foglie

zucchini tonda piazenza

carrot parmex persian market

tomato italian cherry

radish spring fling mix

radish white breakfast

north holland blood red onion

spinach mustard komatsuna  tokisan

Catalogna chicory brindisina

sword lettuce yu mai tsai

I know these all sound odd but these are going to be the new things i try in our recipe. 

I will be planting most of these today if i can find enough soil and containers Then placing them under the cheap grow lights that i have found to work very well i will see if i can ge a fresh veggie crop. 

but here is what i have invested this year

electricity (probably will be less than 10$ for the entire winter)

then the $38.18  for the seeds. I will have to price out any yields i get from this. 

I am so excited! Can't you tell? 

maintenance of my bamboo is a monthly thing. I try to change the water and wash the rocks monthly. Then once a year (yesterday) i did the whole shebang. 

I have the oldest bamboo in its original pot that my parents gave me for x-mas about 5 years back. It is beautifully tall and i want my whole house to have lots of bamboo so i have been handling it with kid gloves.

so as for the maintenance i did to it last year, well i first took the parent plant out, cut off a few branches to propagate new plants and placed those in just plain water without rocks. well the parent plant now has produced new branches. but i never got around to putting in rocks on last years cuttings. SO i have done this so far

cut off the new branches for propagation

cleaned up the parent plant and washed out the rocks

put rocks into last years cuttings (hopefully they will survive)

then planted the new cutting in rocks and have them in a waterfall in my kitchen.

i started with 5 stalks, now i have 10 and hope to have more next year.