Growing What I Eat

This site is a collection of links that will bring you to posts I've written about raising food for my small household, listed in chronological order by loose category. Since I believe in eating well—in all senses—I believe in growing a lot of what I eat.

Also, I've included at the bottom of the page seeds that I have for exchange, as well as a list of what I'm looking for. If you're interested in exchanging seed, please leave me a comment.

General Garden Information
It Began
The Double Sided Nature of Growing Food in a Desert
Ethics of Vegetable Gardening
Expanding the Plot 2007
Building the New Plot 2007
Exchanging Seeds
Why Save Seeds? The question is answered in this post.
Plant Sales

Sowing
Tomatoes 2007
Seeds for Fall 2007
Fall 2007
Seed Starting 2008
Beans 2008
Beans in Pots 2008

Growing
Peppers, Tomatoes, and Melons 2007
Root Crops Fall 2007
Green Crops Fall 2007
Managing Fava Beans and Sugar Snap Vines Winter 2008

Dealing (or not) with Problems
Tomato Leaf Curl
Melons: Protecting Fruit While Growing Vertically
Bugs 2007
Weeds 2008
Tomato Blossom Drop 2008

Harvesting
Basil 2007
Tomatoes 2007
Melon, Tigger 2007
Melons 2007
Peas, Favas, and Green Vegetables Winter 07-08
Armenian Cucumbers Summer 2008
Fish Pepper 2008
Rainbow Watermelon 2008
Uncle David's Dakota Dessert Winter Squash 2008
Red Ruffled Pepper 2008
Homer Fike's Yellow Oxheart Tomato 2008
Tatsoi Winter 2009
Garlic 2009
Tomatoes: Japanese Black Trifele, Teton de Venus, Eva's Purple Ball, and Opalka 2009
Summer Roundup 2009

Other People's Gardens
An Interview with Mike Taylor
Mike Taylor's Farm
Observations of Italian Agricultural Practices
Exchanging Crops
Doctor Banana

Seeds I Have for Exchange:
Collected carefully from my garden:
Cucumber, Armenian ('08)
Hot Pepper, Fish ('08)
Love-in-a-Mist (Nigella damascena), Mrs. Jekyll ('08)
Papaver somniferum, Monticello ('09)
Squash, Lebanese Cousa ('08)
Squash, Uncle David's Dakota Dessert ('09)
Sweet Pea, Fragrant Cloud and Cupani Mix ('09)
Sweet Pepper, Red Ruffled ('08)
West Indian Burr Gherkin ('09)

Seeds I Want:
Broccoli, Piriacicaba
Broccoli, Purple Peacock
Melon, Old Time Tennessee

Scorzonera hispanica
Squash, Greek Sweet Red
Squash, Winter Luxury
Tomato, Prue
I can usually be talked into exchanging for interesting heirloom peppers, tomatoes, squash, and melons

Plants I Want:
Crocus, Saffron
Currant, Golden (Ribes aureum gracillimum)
Grape, Golden Muscat
Onion, Yellow Potato
Pear, Flordahome
Pear, Hood
Shallot, various