After the end of the year holidays finally came to an end, I started going through my seeds and catalogs to figure out what to grow on our new homestead. After getting carried away ordering seeds and the like, I began planning out what needed to get started before our last frost.
With the last projected frost date being around mid-May, it’s time to start some hot pepper boys and others that need all the time they can get to thrive outside.
Back in Rhode Island, we had a successful year of hot peppers on our little ⅛ of an acre and they were so fun to grow! It seemed like everytime we went out back with the dogs, there were new flowers and new peppers to pick. Mike made a bright orange hot sauce from the habaneros and we were just about drowning in them, jalapenos and long red chilis. I can’t recommend them enough, as long as you’ll have a use for them~
Peppers(Hot)
- El Jefe
- Amazing 2 F1
- Numex Suave Orange
- Helios F1
- Cayenne Purple
- Sugar Rush Peach
- Arapaho F1
While some of these peppers are your more traditional finds at the grocery stores, I went with a hot purple cayenne from EdenBros seeds and a hot/sweet pepper from BakerCreek seeds. I really love the idea of having weird colored fruits and vegetables around the property and I’m excited to see how these lil babies do~
Strawberry
- Elan F1
- Yellow Alpine
I’ve not had the best luck with strawberries. I believe I bought slips in the past and promptly killed them, so I’m hoping starting from seeds might give me a better chance. I think the yellow alpine seeds are a bit old but they might surprise me.
Echinacea
- White/Pink (unmarked in my seed collection)
- Magnus
- Cheyenne
I grew one tall echinacea plant in our last summer in Rhode Island and it was such a bright spot in the garden. I’m hoping for a lot more this year so they can get established and give me some root medicine in a couple of years~
For week two I’ll be moving on to sweet peppers, eggplants, black eyed susans and oregano. I’m a bit scared to start all of these seeds without really having an idea of where they’ll end up outside but that’s half the fun of starting a garden~