Tree seeds

Now comes the fun part of buying seeds!

I was at a farmer's Co-op store and bought these really long (18") radishes, bush beans and five herbs (including chives). Yesterday I went to the Nova Tree Company and bought little $5 bags of seeds of Butternut, Pea Shrub, American Cranberry and Wild Raisin.

For an annual herb, these radishes should be excellent at drawing nutrients from deep within the ground. Beans are good nitrogen fixers and chive greens are nice to harvest early in the summer when still tender. Steamed chives with butter taste as good as asparagus!

I am planning to cool a few tree seeds in moist sphagnum moss for a month or two and sow the rest in the fall so that they have a proper cold period before germination. I am excited about the Pea Shrub, which is a legume tree species with edible pods.

This weekend, I will scatter some grass clippings over the whole area. That should be a good preparation for sowing white clover seeds early next month.