Anyone who has been reading this blog for a while knows that I have a problem with seeds. I absolutely adore them. I love the small colorful bags of seeds, I love the feeling of new seed bags in my hands, and the excitement of choosing my new bags. I like to sow but I’m absolutely crazy about buying seeds.
I’m not a psycho that buys seeds that I don’t need, but I do buy huge amounts of seeds and I love it.
Last week I saw that Pšeno, our big agricultural shop started selling onion sets. So I decided to buy the sets and plant them in the autumn. 

While I was looking for sets I found more nice things I need like nylon for my new cold frame we’ll build.  Since this is a store for professional and hobby gardeners I got very nice quality nylon with 4yr year guarantee used for professional greenhouses.

I also found wonderful seed trays for 1.1€ a piece. They are usually much more expensive so I never bought them. I used this great deal and I bought 10 trays with different holes. 
I have now enough trays for most of my seedlings and it will be easier to manage these trays instead of the bunch of little pots and cups.

The next thing I got was agrotextile which I use during the winter and to protect my plants from frost and extreme sun during the spring. I also found plastic garden nails. I’ve been using wires and wood sticks past few years but the sticks break and wires turn rusty and this will be a nice change. I can use them for years without worrying if they will turn rusty and cut me. And they were a real bargain 0.1€ a piece.

I also got a sowing punch tool for the seedling and bulb holes. Clay soil is very hard and I really struggle making holes for my seedlings. The little ones with less soil aren’t a problem, but the tomatoes and peppers are a real struggle. This will help a lot and shorten the planting time.

And of course, while buying all this stuff I couldn’t help but browse the seed list and as always I started adding them to the cart like crazy. So now I got a bunch of new seeds and I’m loving it.
I bought a bunch of new chilly peppers. I had most of them before, but I didn’t manage to collect seeds so I bought some very hot, other mild, and a bag of professional seeds Džinka- Serbian pepperoni pepper traditionally used as pickled pepper. I also bought a few new tomato varieties mostly early ones that will have time to give the second crop.

I bought some peas, but only 500gr due to the bad years we had so far, sugar peas, beans, and a huge pack of spinach because…why not. 

Next on my list were zucchinis, melons, watermelons kohlrabi, and eggplants.
I selected a few zucchini varieties hoping that if I sow many varieties some of them will grow good. If all of them fail there are two varieties of pattypan that never fail.

I bought some winter and summer lettuce, cucumbers, radishes, chard, and rhubarb. I’ll try to grow some more rhubarb because that one plant I have doesn’t give many leaves.

When it comes to cucumbers I bought professional packs of cucumbers. I bought a small pack of Muncher cucumbers for salads and a big pack of pickling cucumbers. Cucumbers have been giving me problems over the past couple of years. The hobby seeds you can buy here are really terrible quality, most of the seeds don’t germinate, plants produce very few fruits, and are very sensitive to diseases. After talking to my neighbors we came to the conclusion that the only good cucumber plants that produce enough fruits are actually the ones that were bought as seedlings from professional farmers. So I decided to buy professional seeds. They weren’t cheap. 10€ for 250 seeds is a lot in our country, but I’m hoping this Kybria variety will pay off. I selected this variety because it is described as cucumbers for net production, with clusters of female flowers, highly resistant to diseases. So we’ll see. The seeds weren’t treated so there are big chances the bugs will eat them, but I’ll use some powder eco insect killer I have at home to coat the seeds and they should be fine.

On the vegetable list of bags, there were also celery, parsnip, parsley, and the returning vegetable beets.
I gave up on sowing beets because I wasn’t too happy about the amounts that I got, but since my hubby loves to eat beets I’ll give them another go. 

I also did a rampage on the flower category and bought, well most of the flower varieties they had.
Most of them will be for next year, but I also bought some biannual and perennials that I’ll sow now and transplant in October. 

I’m still not happy with the seed amount I have. I still need to buy some more brassicas, corn, beans that are out of season now, and some flowers. I will buy some more exotic seeds to give them a go and then I’ll stop buying. If I’ll be able to stop. 😁