A (Mostly) Complete List of Seeds for the 2022 Garden

Have you ordered your seeds yet for the upcoming garden season? My seed orders have arrived and are officially organized. Part of what I love about fall and winter is the peaceful feeling I get sitting by our woodstove bundled in blankets while thumbing through various garden seed catalogs and plotting out my orders.

That’s when the promise and possibility of the next growing season is at its purest, its most idealized… and when the memories of flea beetles and aphids devouring my brassicas, birds pecking holes in my ripe tomatoes, and snails sucking on my lettuces feel slightly more distant.

This year will be our largest garden yet, so I figured it would be fun to share with you what we’ve decided to try to grow here on the homestead. Most of the seeds I ordered this year came from Baker Creek, Johnny’s Selected Seeds, and High Mowing Organic Seeds. I find them to be reputable, trustworthy companies with really high quality seeds and growing resources.

Some of these seeds are from years past, so we will see if the germination is still high enough on the older ones to get viable plants. This list is mostly complete, as I will inevitably grab fistfuls of seed packets at our local garden nursery while there “just to browse.”

Either way, I’m REALLY excited to get growing! Here are the seeds I’ve ordered and organized for the 2022 garden (so far…):

Salad Blends and Lettuces:

• Rocky Top Lettuce Blend from Baker Creek
• Monet’s Garden Mesclun from Renee’s Garden
• Sanguine Ameliore Lettuce (also known as strawberry lettuce) from Baker Creek
• Tom Thumb Lettuce from Baker Creek
• Flashy Trout Back Heirloom Cutting Lettuce from Renee’s Garden – Yes, I absolutely bought this because of the name.

Kale:

• Lacinato Dinosaur Kale is my favorite kind of kale. I ordered these seeds from High Mowing Organic Seeds.

Peas:

• Cascadia Snap Peas from High Mowing
• Sugar Snap from Burpee

Asian Greens:

• Baby Choi Bok Choy from Botanical Interests
• Oriental Greens Shanghai Green Choy from Baker Creek
• Mizuna from High Mowing
• Tat Soi from High Mowing

Cabbages:

• Chinese Cabbage- Napa style from Baker Creek
• Pai Tsai Cabbage from Baker Creek

Collards:

• Georgia Southern from Baker Creek

Swiss Chard:

• Mixed colors from Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
• Perpetual Spinach Swiss Chard from Baker Creek

Spinach:

• Merlo Nero from Baker Creek
• Matador from Botanical Interests

Beets & Radishes:

• Cylindra from High Mowing
• French Breakfast from High Mowing

Onions

• Evergreen Hardy Bunching Onion from High Mowing
• Evergreen Long White Bunching Onion from Burpee

Carrots:

• Cosmic Purple from Baker Creek
• Danvers 126 from Botanical Interests
• Danvers 126 from Burpee

Green Beans:

• Calima from Baker Creek
• Kitchen King from Burpee

Dried Beans:

• Quincy Pinto Bean from High Mowing
• Black Turtle Beans from Baker Creek
• Lima Bean from Baker Creek

Sweet Peppers:

• Shishito from Johnny’s Selected Seeds
• Bull Nose Pepper from Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

Spicy Peppers (all from Baker Creek):

• Craig’s Grande Jalapeno
• Cayenne Long Thin
• Tabasco
• Buena Mulata
• Chiltepin Wild Chile
• Aji Charapita

Tomatoes:

• Sunrise Bumble Bee from Johnny’s Selected Seeds
• Galahad from Johnny’s Selected Seeds
• Defiant from Johnny’s Selected Seeds
• Cherokee Purple from Baker Creek
• Orange Hat from Baker Creek

Flowers

• Strawflower Tom Thumb Mixed from Baker Creek
• Alpha OG Calendula from Johnny’s Selected Seeds
• Benary’s Giant Mix Zinnia from Johnny’s Selected Seeds
• Nasturtium Empress of India from Baker Creek
• Double Click Mix Cosmos from Johnny’s Selected Seeds
• Procut Orange F1 Sunflower from Johnny’s Selected Seeds

Herbs

• Bouquet Dill from Baker Creek
• Emily Basil from Baker Creek
• Blue Spice Basil from Baker Creek
• Basil Lettuce Leaf from Baker Creek
• Genovese OG Basil from Johnny’s Selected Seeds
• Cilantro Slo-Bolt from Baker Creek
• Cilantro from Burpee
• Catnip from Baker Creek
• Sorrel from Baker Creek
• Lemon Balm from Baker Creek

I’ll be growing plants not listed here as well, such as strawberries and blueberries that I won’t be starting from seed. Additionally, I still need to purchase seed potatoes, as well as cucumber, zucchini, butternut squash, and spaghetti squash seeds.

A couple of thoughts to keep in mind as you shop for seeds:

• Grow what you love to eat
• Don’t overdo it! Being overwhelmed will take the fun out of it!
• Try at least one new-to-you variety or plant to continue expanding your gardening knowledge
• Gardening isn’t about perfection (something I always re-learn each year!)

This year I have several new garden goals:

• Learn seed starting and hardening off. In the past, I mostly bought transplants as I didn’t have time while working a job outside the home to focus on growing robust plants from seed. This year, with me focusing full time on our homestead and with the garden basically tripling in size, I’m going to attempt to grow most of our plants from seed. It will be a learning experience for sure!
• Increase storage crop production. Last year was my first foray into growing potatoes and dried beans, and I am hooked. I would like to really expand the production of both those crops, as well as grow more tomatoes (can you ever really have enough?), carrots, and cabbage to preserve and store. We have a new deep freezer and I hope to pack that baby full of garden greens and green beans as well.
• Grow more spicy peppers. This year will be the most amount of spicy pepper plants I’ve tried growing!! Last year our harvest from just one Jalapeño plant was incredible, so I see a lot of hot sauce in our future.
• Utilize vertical space by adding more trellises to the garden. Even with expanding the garden, space is at a premium so I want to work on growing UP not just out!
• Grow more cut flowers. One of our homestead goals is to produce some cut flowers to sell either at the farmers’ market or to local businesses. Plus it would be wonderful to have a weekly bouquet inside our home with flowers that we grew, and help the pollinators while we’re at it.

Do you have any new seeds you’re trying? Any goals you want to share? Let me know in the comments below. Happy growing!