Seed Frenzy!

Hello, my name is Danielle, and I'm a seed-a-holic.

(C'mon now, say it with me: "Heelllooo Danielle!")

Yes, I confess that I have officially succumbed to the midwinter eye-candy catalogs, though I did all my ordering online. Getting the whole CSA thing up and running this year led to wild and wanton abandon when ordering seeds. By the time I was through, I felt giddy and lightheaded—a sure sign of addiction!

Are you ready for this mammoth list? Really, grab yourself a cuppa and sit down—I'll wait.

Many of the following varieties are heirlooms, though not all, and I ended up ordering from four different sources: Southern Exposure, Seed Savers, Johnny's Seeds, and I ended up getting my horseradish from Gurney's.

Veggies:

• artichoke, "imperial star"
• bean, "cherokee"
• bean, "louisiana" purple pole
• bean, "Isar" yellow french
• bean, "genuine cornfield" (also have "kentucky wonder" seed saved)
  
• bean, "royal burgandy"
• beet, "chioggia"
• beet, "lutz"
• broccoli, "calabrese"
• broccoli raab
• brussels sprout, "catskill"
• cabbage, "Jersey Wakefield"
• carrot, "oxheart
• carrot, "chantenay" red core
• celery, "conquistador"
• corn, super sweet bi-color
  
• cucumber, "diva" slicing
  
• cucumber, "boston" pickling
• eggplant, "black beauty"
• horseradish
• kale, "vates"
• kale, "hanover salad"
• kohlrabi, purple
• leek, "blue solaize"
• lettuce, "black seeded simpson"
• lettuce, "oakleaf"
• lettuce, "red salad bowl"
• lettuce, "yugoslavian red" butterhead
• lettuce, "speckled bibb"
• lettuce, "bunte forrellenschuss"
• lettuce, "winter density"
• melon, "hales best"
• melon, "old tennessee"
• onion, "new york early"
• onion, "ruby ring"
• pea, "little marvel"
• pea, "amish snap"
• pepper, "California wonder" red bell
• pepper, "Gourmet" orange bell
• pepper, hot serrano
• potato, "Russian Banana" fingerling (we have "red nordland" and "yukon gold" seed potatoes from last year's harvest
• radish, "French breakfast"
• spinach, "bloomsdale"
• spinach, "america"
• summer squash, "costata"
• sweet potato, "beauregard"
  
• swiss chard, "brigh lights"
• tomato, "amish paste"
• tomato, "sun gold"
• tomato, "gold nugget"
• tomato, "sweet olive"
• tomato, "green zebra"
• tomato, "German red strawberry"
• tomato, "Brandywine"
• watermelon, "strawberry"
  

Herbs:

• basil, "Genovese" (have lemon basil seed saved)
  
• bee balm, multi
• borage, white
• borage, wild blue
• calendula, alpha
• catnip
• chamomile, "bodegold"
  
• chives, purly
• chives, garlic
• cilantro, "santo"
• dill, "Hercules"
• evening primrose
  
• lavendar, "munstead"
• motherwort
• mullein
• oregano, Greek
• parsley, "Italian dark green" curly
• sage, common
• sorrel
• tarragon, French
  
• white sage
  
• wild bergamot
• wormwood