I found a way to curb my seed-buying addiction. Buy more seeds!
Just dropped about $40 at Baker Creek for another 15 or so packs of assorted veggie seeds
Much safer on the wallet, and most of the stuff you don't have to do anything special to get seeds for next year.
I am planting a variety of everything to see what does well here this year just to get more seeds from those. Once I get my large garden set up for rows of plants I'll mass produce a few things there and keep the backyard garden for tomatoes and peppers.
I just started the last section of my garden with some beets and such for fall. I also culled a cherry tomato and a cucumber that were not super. I filled in the blanks with new tomato plants I had started so I have more slicers. All the 18 varieties of carrots are coming up but I have fucking chipmunks and have no clue if they will make it to term.
I can see most of my garden from the back door. I pruned back the mulberry and peach trees back right now that they are done fruiting and un-shaded another 30 square feet or so. I have been both lolli-popping my tomatoes and snipping every sucker and they are still fruiting well and are way easier to manage and wath for bad bugs and worms.
The green hydrofarm plant dish there behind the monolith is a bird bath I keep filled when I water. The fleet of birds I have removing insects from the garden is amazing. This is the grandpa of a huge flock that resides near the bird feeder. Yesterday he decided it was cool to take a swim while I was fairly close. Great stoner moment.
This is from this morning though. he is the only bright red one. Grandma has a bright red beak and some flair, but the younger ones are all fairly dull brownish red. Anyway, I usually burn one looking out the back door and tripping on whatever is there.