Garden Planning #2 - The Seduction of Seeds

I put in my seed order today. I'm not exactly a beginner at this stage, but I'm definitely an amatuer. Seed catalogs are evil things. There's no way that anyone with a kitchen garden could grow everything in the catalog, but the pictures are so seductive and a pack of individual seeds is pretty cheap. The tendency is to vastly over buy.

I figured this year I would avoid this trap. So, I started with a complete inventory of left-over seeds and the seeds gifted to me from my dad after his move. The list was surprisingly long and included things that I hadn't planned to try, like cucumbers and peas. From there I looked for varieties to fill in the gaps: beets, spinach, lettuce, mustard greens, cherry tomato, okra, runner beans, winter and summer squash. I had a plan.

However, for some reason that I can't quite fathom, apparently the super bowl is an excellent reason for a seed sale. So when I went into buy my seeds they were all 20% off and there was a 10 for $10 mix and match special on select packets.

I'm human, my willpower only extends so far.

So ended up with packets of hollyhock, snapdragons, chives, garlic chives, pollinator herbs, love lies bleeding, sorrel, arugula, dinosaur kale, mother of thyme, calendula, chamomile, and st. john's wort. All things, at least, that I had earlier considered growing, yet that's a lot of seeds that I now have to find places for in my carefully considered plan.