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It is now little past mid February. It is time to get your seeds for you garden.

Granted some may not want to start some in the house yet or want to wait to plant for a couple of more months before putting the seed in the garden, that is ok. I recommend to start getting your seeds now. You can often find heritage seed in your local grocer or hardware store right now.

I will be blunt here, many people will say you have to get your seed from this catalog or that website to get the heritage seeds. I say RUBBISH. Look around your home town and start looking right now, you can get heritage seed often times a lot cheeper than from a website or catalog store.

Reason for heritage seed is because you can save the seeds these plant produce to plant again next year. Many hybrid and genetically modified organisms (other wise known as GMO seed) when you save the seed to plant the following year you have a low percentage of the seed growing. The process of making GMO's or hybrid seeds ofter make the second, third or even forth generation sterile. So if you want to save seed from one crop to the next then you best bet for the money is heritage seed. It will produce from one years crop to the next. You can even store the seed for a couple of years and have a better chance of getting it to sprout than you would a GMO or hybrid.

Why now? So you don't run into what I did last year, I was late getting my seed and when I went to get my lettuce seed all I could find was black seed leaf lettuce. It is good lettuce but is not as resilient against the heat of the summer here so it wont last as long into the summer.

Here is a hint for those who may have food stamps. You can use them to buy seeds and starter plants for a garden.

Good luck and let us know what you are planting this year. I will add my list a little later.