I hate you. This is me flicking you off. 
Brrrrrrrrrrrr.
I started a garden for the first time this last summer. It was a lot of fun and yes, I have been looking through all the seed catalogs already picking out what I want to grow and planning how I want to lay things out this year. It’s like an addiction or something - a great, fun, and useful hobby to have.
You’re pushin’ too hard…
I’d gladly trade with you. We don’t get any real change of seasons down here, and it is oppressively hot most of the year. I don’t mind the cold and snow much and the seasonal changes make the annual garden that much more enjoyable IMHO. As soon as we are able to, we are moving up into the temperate zone.
My seed order for FEDCO
Provider Bush Green Bean
Bush Blue Lake Green Bean
Kentucky Wonder Pole Bean
Vermont Cranberry Dry Bean
Cannellini Dry Bean
Spring Treat swt corn
Serindipity swt corn
Pennsylvania Dutch Butter Flavored Popcorn
Abenaki Calais Flint OG dry field corn
Sugar snap pea
Marketmore cucumber
Burgess Buttercup winter squash
Waltham butternut winter squash
Space spinach
Summer Lettuce mix
Rutgers tomato
Garderners delight cherry tomato
Amish Paste tomato
Brocade Marigolds
Jewel mix Nastrium
Mammouth Gray Stipe Sunflower
Early Girl Tomato
Plus I ordered some more heirloom tomatos from Totally Tomatoes but did not write down what I ordered ( Brandywine & others). Will also be ordering some spuds, onions, & garlic from the MAINE POTATO LADY.
BZ from the Tropic of NE Pa
What’s space spinach? Spinach for small spaces or spinach from outer space?
drools in envy over all your gardens
If I wanted to plant a very small window garden–lots of light (about half of it natural), fresh air, regular watering–what would you guys recommend?
I will most likely have another garden this coming summer (and unlike you Floridians, this Hoosier will have to wait a couple more months to get started). Can anyone suggest an on-line source for seeds? My choice around here isn’t too bad, but there are a few things I just can’t seem to find.
My choices for next summer:
Spinach (I want to grow a lot of this, need lots o’ seeds!)
Radish (I need a lot of these, too)
Beet
Turnip
Green beans
Wax beans
Yellow beans
Burgundy beans
Cucumbers
Red bell peppers
Orange bell peppers
Yellow bell peppers
Potatoes
Onions
Bok choy (I could not find this last year)
Indian corn (new - I think my birds will love it)
Carrots (new for this year - I’m thinking a short variety would work best for me)
That’s actually a large variety of things for a small garden, but I like variety and I have found that planting several varieties increases my chances of having a good harvest of at least one of them.
For the potatoes, I might just cut up a sprouted one from the store - we did that at least once when I was a kid with good results, and since I’m not planting a half acre of spuds that might work best.
The dandelions, bless 'em, provide for themselves. I got a pound and a half last spring. Mmmm… yum!
Ideally, I’d like to choose somewhat how much of a type of seed I buy, and my budget is very, very limited. I have some year-old leftovers which I will use, which will help.
I’m sort of wondering if I’d be better off just buying some already-started pepper plants - the ones I tried from see last year either didn’t come up or were eaten by the cucumbers. Peppers are something I find difficult to grow. I don’t know if it’s me or if they actually are that delicate.
USA seed companies selling direct to consumer:
We have sprouts! The first to come up were the sugar peas, followed by a few of the fava beans, and then the squash, and one of the melons. The rest have yet to make an appearance, though i expect to see them when we return from the holidays. 
I used Park Seed, I got a free gift of the pack of Pearl Cucumbers with my order. Harmonius Discord’s post has a link for them. They seem to have a huge variety of stuff, except for my yardlong beans.
Update: I went to water the trays down, and the Black Krim Tomatoes are up. I’d swear they weren’t when I posted a few hours ago. Also a few of the Ideal market beans have popped up, and the scarlet runners seem to be coming along as well. I hope they’ll be alright for a few days alone.
FEDCO seed cat
pg 43
2510SP Space (37 days) F-1 hybrid. The Russians won phase one of the
space race with their 1957 launch of Sputnik. Space won the spinach race
with its spectacular 2005 launch in our catalog. We sell over 3,500 packets
per year. Space may be at the final frontier of spinach breeding. As one
trialer put it, “Along with Olympia it dusted all the others.” Space produces
the kind of vigorous big thick wavy mostly smooth slightly savoyed leaves
that market growers love and restaurant chefs adore. Sown at normal
spring-planting time it will stand at least two weeks. Vigorous at all times, it
was the quickest to mature from a fall planting. “Space overwintered here in
Zone 6 (minimum temperature –8°F) without any cover I think,” says David
Carr from Port Treverton, PA. Upright growth results in good clean
dark-green leaves with a juicy sweet taste. Resistant to DM1,2,3. 
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A=1/4oz, $1.00 B=1/2oz, $1.80 C=1oz, $3.00 D=4oz, $6.00
update:
Most of the sprouts have gone into the ground today and are chugging away happily. I still have a few rows to dig, but the plants going in them could use the extra tray time anyway.
