Seeds from Rockville Maryland

What a way to celebrate the first blogiversary by Wendy in a post dated 17th of July 2010. A high school counselor by day and a landscape architect by night in her dreams as she describes herself, Wendy did a  1st blogiversary giveaway! .

I received the giveaway seeds recently and never thought it is going to be that many. Out of the 20 seed types, three are grown for flowers and the rest are fairly standard vegetables. I googled and paste the relevant link for future use and others to learn as well. It definitely become handy when we get on with it.....

1. French Summer Thyme [Thyme 'French Summer]
2. Giant of Italy Parsley  [Grow fresh parsley]
3. Cilantro [Growing Cilantro]
4. Chinese Long Bean
5. Luffa Gourd (sponge) 2 pcts  [ Growing Luffa Sponges at Luffa]
6. Luffa Gourd (angled)
7. Wax Gourd  [Wax Gourd]
8. Marketmore 76 cuke
9. Butternut Squash [HOW TO GROW BUTTERNUT SQUASH FROM SEED]
10. Malabar Spinach [How to Grow Malabar Spinach]
11. Heirloom Acres Lettuce
12. Charentais melon [Growing Charentais melon]
13. Asian sweet melon (2 packets) [Grow Juicy Sweet Watermelons]
14. Calabrese green sprouting brocoli  [ Organic Green Sprouting Calabrese Broccoli]
15. Thai eggplant
16. Carrot kuroda long
17. Thai Burapa Hot Pepper 
18. Cleome [How to Grow Spider Flower Plant]
19. Marigold  
20. Imperial Star Antichoke [Artichoke Plant 'Imperial Star']

We thought, trying out Thyme first will be a good idea. After going through the information available, growing thyme is not going to be an easy one. First, it will take 3 weeks at least for thyme to germinate. Somehow that will coincide with Hari Raya celebration which requires us to be away for a few days. We don't want baby seedlings to cry and die hungry. Knowing that thyme have excellent fragrance and antibacterial elements, the adventure should be worthwhile...

 Wendy, Cheers!

bangchik and kakdah, PUTRAJAYA Malaysia