Seed Starting List for 2010 - Warm Weather Plants

I'll start the warm weather plants, those that aren't direct seeded and are frost intolerant like tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, and most herbs, the first week of March. By that time all the cold weather starts will have germinated and been transplanted to larger containers, freeing up the seed-starting trays for the second round of seed starts.

Last year's seedlings, hardening off.

I'd encourage everyone to start their own seeds. It's not that hard. Check out this post on Seed Starting for more info.

If you'd like me to start any (from the list below) for you, email me or leave a comment on this post by March 20th. I have space under my lights to start an extra 100 warm-weather plants. For $3 you'll get a 3-4" tall plant in a 4" grower pot. No delivery, you'll need to pick them up at my house, near Division and Wood Streets in Chicago. I did it last year and found it was a nice way to meet some of our readers.

I'm keeping track of all the starts on this Google Docs spreadsheet.

H2 made an inventory of all our old seeds. I added the few new varieties we've picked to grow this year and came up with this list.

In addition to some of our own saved seeds, we have seeds from:

Franchi (Seeds From Italy)
Hudson Valley Seed Co
Johnny's Seeds
Renee's Garden
Seed Saver Co
Victory Seed Co


Eggplant
• Pingtung Long
• Udumalapet
• Listada de Gandia
• Diamond
• Black Beauty

Herbs
• Basil 'Cinnamon'
• Basil 'Genovese'
• Basil 'Mrs. Burns Lemon'
• Basil 'Purple Dark Opal'
• Basil 'Lettuce Leaf'
• Bee Balm
• Black Cumin
• Borage 'White'
• Chickweed
• Chives
• Curled Chervil
• Dill
• English Lavender
• English Sorrel
• Greek Oregano
• Lovage
• Parsley
• Rosemary
• Saltwort
• Stevia
• Summer Savory
• Thyme

Peppers
• Carmen
• Napolean Sweet
• Pimento
• Purple Beauty
• Rooster Spur - hot
• Santa Fe Grande - hot
• Sweet Chocolate

Tomatoes
• Black Cherry
• Black Prince
• Brandywine Yellow
• Carbon
• Cherokee Purple
• Kellogg's Breakfast
• Matina
• Rose
• San Marzano
• Stupice
• Valencia

Direct Seed and/or Miscellaneous Seeds.

While these aren't for sale, I wanted to keep track of the other seeds we (might) use. It's amazing how many varieties we've grown in the previous three years.

Amaranth, Burgundy
Beans, Climbing French
Beans, Empress
Beans, Fin de Bagnol
Beans, Hidatsa
Beans, Red Swan
Beets, Bull's Blood
Brussel Sprouts, Catskill
Cabbage, Red Acre
Carrot, Scarlet Nance
Cucumber, Lemon
Cucumber, Sweet Armenian
Green Onion, White Lisbon
Kolhrabi, Delicatesse Blue
Melon, Banana
Melon, Delicious 51 PMR
Melon, Ha Ogen
Melon, Moon and Stars
Melon, Thai Golden Round
Morning Glory flower
Okra, Clemson Spineless
Purslane
Radish, French Breakfast
Scorzonera
Squash, Delicata Honey Boat
Squash, Erik K's Mystery
Squash, Summer Mix
Sunflower, California Grey Stripe
Sunflower, Giant Grey Stripe
Sunflower, Lemon Queen
Sunflower, Vanilla Ice