One thing I look forward to every year even before I could have a garden is seed catalogs. While I have been thumbing through my mom's Burpee and Guerney catalogs for years and now receive them myself I requested an heirloom catalog on a whim. Wow! Bakers Creek Heirloom Seeds company at rareseeds.com sent me the most magnificent catalog I have ever seen and opened my eyes to the varieties of vegetables that have been produced for hundreds of years but have disappeared during the GMO days of recent. They have 55 varieties of eggplant. I didn't even know there was 55 varieties of eggplant in existence! If you check this catalog out you will not be disappointed.
The other thing that this catalog did was open my eyes to planting and starting your plants from seeds. One of my co-workers bought a $4 heirloom tomato in February from Whole Foods and said it was the best tomato she had ever had. Knowing it was a good tomato and heirloom I took some of the seeds from it and put them in a moist paper towel and put it in a baggie (thanks Kirvin for the idea). After two weeks they had sprouted and I put them in little pots and watched them grow. Those seeds from a store- bought tomato are now in my garden as well as my co-workers. With this success I plan on harvesting my seeds and those from the farmers market to get an early start next year from plants I know and trust.
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