If you want to get away from ordering seeds, you start with a few heirloom seeds and save seed year to year when you find a variety of something that you really like. This is how I remember my grandparents doing it. I remember seeing "wet" seeds spread on newspaper and "dry" seeds in glass baby food jars all lined up on the ledges of the basement windows for the winter.
This year I begin a local collection with the help of some friends who live outside of a small town called Cleveland, Minnesota and family outside of Gibbon, Minnesota. Are you getting the drift that I live in town in a bright and sunny apartment but an apartment nonetheless? This year I ordered 3 types of seed from Seed Savers Exchange <http://read.timesprintingdigital.com/t/26979/8> to start the collection.
Because I love fried green tomatoes, that one was a no brainer when I saw Aunt Ruby's German Green Tomatoes. Then I noticed Amish Paste Tomatoes, yup, I can almost taste the sauce! But here is the seed that brought me to the seed catalog in the first place. Kalman's Hungarian Tomato Pepper! They look unbelievable interesting. Yes folks, other than the fact that I like peppers, I ordered them and want to grow them because they look so cool!
The Tarahumara White Seeded Sunflowers were an added bonus and one of the reasons I love ordering seeds. The seed companies almost always send along complimentary seeds and you never know what you will get, kind of like Forrest Gump's chocolates.
It is going to be an exercise in patience to keep these seeds till it is time to plant them. The way the weather is looking, I am thinking somewhere between the middle of March to the middle of April. I almost always do stuff like this on "gut instinct" and I think this will be no exception.
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