Green thumb

The first anniversary of the Tarheel Tavern is up! Bora did a fabulous job of paying tribute.

While I was over at Bora's, I found a new carnival that I've entered, too, called the Carnival of the Green. I never realized that so many other greenies were online, and posting incredible info - I thought it was just Laurie ;-) (who, by the way, has a fab recipe listed today for creamy tomato soup)

I've picked out my seeds - all $140 of them. Whether all will make the final cut or not is yet to be determined, but here's the preliminary trial:

• Blue Lake 274, Genuine Cornfield, and Kentucky Wonder beans
• Green Goliath broccoli
• Purple Dragon and Scarlet Nantes carrots
• Hickory King, Black Popcorn, and Luther Hill corn
• Nankeen cotton
• Suyo Long and White Wonder cucumbers
• Mammoth Grey Stripe, Evening Sun, and Selma Suns sunflowers
• Small Spoon gourds (to go with my dippers, luffa, and pumpkin gourds)
• Red Acre cabbage
• Long Standing Bloomsdale spinach
• Anise-scented basil
• Wild Bergamot and Black Cohosh
• Wormwood and Sweet Wormwood
• Deer Tongue lettuce
• Plum Granny muskmelon
• Egyptian Walking onions
• Mammoth Melting Sugar, Sugar Bon, and Mandy peas
• Whopper peanuts
• Chinese 5 color, Perfection, and Sweet Banana peppers
• Russian Banana Fingerling potatoes
• Big Rainbow, Radiator Charlie's Mortgage Lifters, Cherokee Purple, Martian Giant Slicer, and Long Keepers tomatoes (we have a bit of a tomato fetish - can you tell?)
• Amish Moon & Stars watermelon
• Buckwheat, Red Clover, and Mediterranean Wheat groundcovers

I'm keeping a journal of sorts for my record keeping this year, so I can make my garden more of an experiment than guesswork. I already started some Sage, Basil, Mesclun, Cucuzzi, pumpkins, chives, and cucumbers. I still feel a little lost in the whole process, but I'll try to muddle through. I'm sure I'll have lots of help from the Slow Food Piedmont group, my sister, and Google.