After Valentine's Day passes in Fairbanks, AK, people start to feel much more cheery because light has noticeably returned to make days longer. Today, the length of day is 8h 45min with visible light being 10 1/2 hours. This is amazing after enduring 4-5 hour days over the dead of the winter. We are gaining over 6 minutes of light each day. I am not feeling so anxious about making sure that I go outside around noon each day to stare at the sunlight. So I am celebrating by ordering my first set of seeds for the year to share with my dear gardening friend Jenny. You can't imagine how happy this makes us. I am glad I have someone here to share that kind of joy with. I have spent the last few weeks thumbing through the Fedco seed catalog, making lists of delicious heirloom veggies that I want to grow in my garden this year. We need to start our tomato and pepper seeds in March here in order to achieve summer fruit so I am ordering them first along with a couple of herbs. Here is what we have decided to order:
Applegreen EggplantHungarian Hot Wax Pepper
Early Jalapeno Pepper
Long Red Narrow Cayenne Pepper
Ida Gold Tomato
Cosmonaut Volkov Tomato
Pink Brandywine Tomato
Peacevine Cherry Tomato
Vincenza Blue Lavender
Rosemary
Hope the moose stay out of the garden this year!
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