Garden starts 2016

Last year, despite 3 farmers market trips per week, we had a hard time keeping enough fresh vegetables in the house. I kept eating them all. Yay eating! But for this year I planned to plant our own green beans, which were the worst offenders, plus some herbs for salve-making and dyes. It's snowballed a bit since then.

I currently have the following seeds getting started in pots on the windowsill:

VEGETABLES

• 2 types of sweet red pepper
  
• japanese eggplant (the long, dark purple ones)
  
• zucchini
  

HERBS

• fenugreek (for greens)
  
• cilantro (for greens and seeds)
  
• zaatar, a syrian relative of thyme
  
• parsley
  
• black nigella (for seeds)
  
• nettle (for greens and shampoo bars, and possibly fiber for spinning)
  
• marsh mallow (the actual root, for salves and shampoo bars)
  
• yarrow (for yellow/green dye and salves)
  
• elecampane (expectorant & carminative)
  
• dyer's chamomile (for yellow dye)
  
• Coreopsis tinctoria (for red/orange dye)
  
• black hollyhock (for mauve dye in 2017)
  
• madder (for red dye in 2020)
  
• black sunflower (for gray/blue dye, and seeds)