Garden: Late Start as Usual!

I just ordered $50 worth of Heirloom seeds from Baker Creek's website. I requested a catalog sometime last year, and was completely stoked to receive the gorgeous thing early this year! I wanted to buy everything, but after much toiling (and possibly detrimental delay), I narrowed it down as best as I could!

Here is a preview of several of the more exciting fruits and veggies I hope to be displaying later this summer! Eeek, getting giddy just thinking about spring!

Purple Russian Tomato

Chinese 5 color Hot Peppers

Tigger Melon

Cosmic Purple Carrot

Mexican Sour Gherkin Cuke (Just bigger than a quarter!)

I know I'm getting a late start, but it's actually planned! My hubby bought me an aerogarden for Christmas, which I planted an herb garden in, and some of those herbs germinated within 3 days! The hydroponic nutrients, rich light source, and constant movement of water is just the right recipe for starting seeds! So this year I'm scrapping my downstairs operation, purchased a seed starter kit for my 7 pod aerogarden (I bought a smaller corner 6 pod garden to transplant my herbs into so I can use the larger kit), and plan on starting my garden this way this year! I still may need my downstairs operation, but I'm kinda thinking about turning it into a straight up hydroponics system. I purchased some vermiculite and hydroponic nutrients (which I need for my aerogarden anyways), so I practically have everything I need, I just have to put it all together.

I'm also rolling around an aquaponics project, complete with fish and everything, but don't want to bite off too much again this year. I'm still planning on doing the rain barrel this year, which is yet another project! I think I need to keep it to one big idea per year! I can't deny that I get all my best ideas from Patty Moreno, the Garden Girl! The aquaponics idea is from a video on her site, check it out!