Gardening

As many of you know, Matt and I started our first garden last year. You may have followed the progress on this blog or on Matt's Facebook page. You can still go there to see MANY pictures of all the produce we collected. We loved it! There's just something so rewarding about being able to walk out to your backyard and gather everything you need for a meal. Someday we hope to have some land out in the country where we can have a huge garden with enough produce to start a co-op or just store it for the winter and be completely self-sustaining as far as produce goes.

Anyway, last year we planted seedlings that we bought at a local gardening center. This year we're going to try starting from seeds. I have no idea how this will go, but we like the idea and it's a lot cheaper.

I read some gardening blogs and this week The Greenest Dollar has a giveaway for seeds from Hometown Seeds. One option is to leave a comment and hope your name was chosen, and the other option is to be the first of three people to contact Hometown Seeds and be willing to post a link to your own blog to receive free seeds. Well I hopped right on both of those bandwagons! They aren't choosing winners from the comments until Wednesday (so head on over there and enter to win!), but I just got an e-mail back saying that I was the second person to e-mail Hometown Seeds! Woo Hoo!! I'm so excited!!

The coolest thing about Hometown Seeds is that they sell survival seeds. "What are survival seeds," you ask? Well...The Greenest Dollar says this about them, "Survival seeds are not genetically modified, which means you can harvest the seeds from this year’s harvest to plant again next year. Survival seeds enable you to have a garden and not depend on buying new seeds year after year." VERY cool!

Anyway, hop on over to The Greenest Dollar to enter the contest (you have until Tuesday night), and then head over to Hometown Seeds to check out all of their flower and produce seeds.