Seed Choices for this Spring

It's the end of January, and you know what that means.

Yep.

Seed catalog porn.

They try to excite you with huge blooms and wild colors, all the time claiming it'll be ridiculously easy to grow.

I just sent off $15 dollars to Burpee.

I'm going to try the Zowie Zinnia. They claim it's easy for beginners. I'm a beginner. So it should be right up my alley. Currently, I think I'll try having the plants grow around the Sedum assuming, as seems likely at this point, that the Sedum I planted last year will continue will come back in the middle of my large pot. If I plan it right, I'll get the Zinnias to bloom first, forming a ring around the outside of the pot, and then as fall approaches the Sedum will prepare to bloom again in the middle of the pot.

Before the spring, I'll need to dump some more soil in the big pot. The soil that's in there now has settled over the winter.

Also, I'm going to give another whirl at growing nasturtiums. My hope is that the soil in my front window box is depleted enough from growing the beets (I didn't put any fertilizer in the soil) that it'll support proper blooming. Nasturtiums, unlike some other flowers, have the best blooms in nutrient poor soil.