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My interests are primarily gardening, especially year round. I also have an interest in growing edible and medicinal herbs and plants. I am not a practitioner of any of the other healing arts, although I love getting massage work!


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I am in my 7th year of gardening. I started with tomatoes in pickle buckets. I now have 13 raised gopher-proof beds and 3 wire-lined trenches in a deer-proof garden area. This season marked my foray into both starting plants from seed and spring/fall/winter gardening. I have cold-hardy brocoli and collards plants in our garden. What a joy to still have plants alive after our first freeze! We also built a cold frame that is now full of salad greens. We are colder here than most of Hayfork, with earlier frosts and freezes.

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Offer: Vegetable, herb, and flower seeds 3/15/2010
Offer: Various plants, you dig 11/9/2009

This seed list was updated March 24, 2011. I can usually mail these seeds, within reason, of course. BC = Baker Creek. Go to http://rareseeds.com/ to read descriptions.

VEGGIES & FRUIT:
- CHICHIQUELITES. BC - '08. Similar to Wonderberry.
- EGGPLANT, THAI YELLOW EGG: BC - '08. Needs longer growing season than I have.
- EGGPLANT, THAI PURPLE EGG: BD - '08. Needs longer growing season than I have.
- MELON, MUSK - From Hyampom '09
- MELON, MUSK - Cordtz '01 & '10. Netted skin, green flesh.

I have many plants that self sow around our place. In the spring, there are usually new plants in places I prefer them not to be, or there are just a lot of them. Most of them are deer resistant, otherwise they would not have flourished so well:
Lamb's Ears, Rose Campion, Feverfew, Catnip, Lemon Balm (Melissa), Oregano (mild, large leaves, great in salads), Walking/Egyptian Onions (onion sets in fall or plants in spring or summer), Mint (naturalized and very hardy).


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