Settling In With Seeds is a slow, thoughtful tour through my annual vegetable seed collection for the upcoming growing season. In this viewer-requested video, I walk through what I’m growing this year, how I’m making decisions, and how these seeds fit into my broader garden plans here in southern Ontario (Zone 5b).
This is not a seed-starting tutorial — it’s a seed collection tour and garden planning conversation, focused entirely on annual vegetables. I share what varieties I’ve chosen, what I’m repeating, what’s new, and how I’m approaching the season with intention rather than urgency.
If you enjoy long, cozy gardening videos, seed organization, or thoughtful garden planning, this one’s for you 🌱
What’s covered in this video:
-Touring my annual vegetable seeds by crop type
-What I’m growing this year and why
-High-level garden planning for the season ahead
Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:39 Alliums
4:25 Peppers
10:10 Tomatoes
16:32 Cucumbers
19:20 Melons
20:48 Squash & Gourds
22:42 Beans
25:17 Carrots
27:53 Beets, Radishes & Other Roots
30:28 Leafy Greens
34:11 Peas
35:49 Brassicas
41:50 Miscellaneous
Let me know in the comments if you’d like to see a similar seed tour for flowers and herbs!
Finally, if you’re buying seeds this season, I would love it if you shopped through my affiliate link at West Coast Seeds: https://www.westcoastseeds.com/?rfsn=8186916.d46f88
16 Comments
I’ve already got lettuce started on my grow shelf just to test out my lighting, watering frequency etc…
I figured if I screw something up on the lettuce it’s far less of a loss than screwing up hybrid tomatoes or pepper seeds…
Excited to get going this year..
I'll have to look for Twingo peppers. I've had great success with King of the North and North Star Peppers in my short Pacific NW climate but I'm always on the lookout for other varieties that will perform well in our cooler climate. Great video Amy!
Apparently Chaga helps with digestive track issues 🤔 I found some hiking on birch trees…
Great podcast, I enjoy watching you garden. Thank you
Just found your channel! Awesome vid and really liked how you dove into specific varieties – far from boring for a gardening nerd like me! One tomato that might interest you is the Rosella Purple from the Dwarf – Hawthorne carries seeds.
I also keep my brassicas under insect netting and for sturdy arch supports I recommend you look at 1/4" PVC as it is easy to bend. William Dam sells them in bundles of 25 and not too expensive. They would be sturdy enough for wind I think. I actually use 9 guage wire that I MacGyvered and even they haven't had any issue with wind…..I wish I had found the 1/4" pvc prior to getting the wire. Note – I haven't been able to find 1/4" anywhere, as all the building stores don't carry it and 1/2" is the smallest. 1/2" is a pain to bend for less a than 4' width row – 1/4" is easier – imo.
You mentioned rabbits got into your raised bed – I have a 4'x8' x 2' cedar raised bed that I built and ended up making a hinged hoop house (using 1/2" pvc) over it and insect netting has kept the rabbits out. It was inspired by Millennial Gardener's modular hoop house but I changed it up a bit.
Glad to see you support Urban Gardening Canada as she's great too!
Thanks for the variety review! I will also be growing the Moskvich tomato, Provider bush bean, Sugar Ann pea, and shishitos this year. All new varieties for me. Last year the Mini-Me cuke impressed me. Small four inch or so small English cuke that was early to start and finished early to make room for a new fall veggie in its spot, at least here in Minnesota 4b.
I really enjoyed your video. I was a landscaper for my entire adult lie starting at 16 years old. Anyway, many people assume because I was a landscaper dor so many years, I know everything about every stage of every plants's life. Its really nice to see people like you, who take the time and effort involved, to break things down. Thank you for your work, and sharing your experiences.
Hello from the Thumb of Michigan! We apparently grow many of the same varieties. Thanks for the tip on Twango. You'll love fish and sugar rush peach. I am a market gardener and people expect perfect colored bell peppers, which is very difficult to achieve without a green house. So I have switched to some hybrids that color in a stripped or swirled pattern. I buy a lot of seeds from MIGardener.
44:19 could have clicked away if I was bored lol. The quality was fine. I would like to hear more about your experience with different food plants for direct seeding. I would like to avoid as much e-waste and plastic as possible that may come with starting things indoors and greenhouses. I know that one person might not make that much of a difference but I can't help but to think big picture, if everyone in the world were doing it one way vs another.
Great video…I've avoided doing a similar vid because it would be 5 hours of me slipping and sliding down a rabbit hole because i have so many seeds😂😂😂 I hope granny cantrell works for you. Tomatoes are touch and go from climate to climate. Most of them hate my humidity but it's so much fun to try them.
Lemon jalapeños are my fav and theyre SO productive. Also fish peppers as in the variegated one? Its such a gorgeous plant
Would love to see a video about your flowers and herbs. Also if you have your beds planned out on paper I’d love to see that as well. Lovely video
Just buy organic quinoa at the store and "carpet" sow them. Then you can pinch off the weaker plants. ❤
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Thank you for this video! It was exactly what I hoped – a list of what you find has done the best in our climate. Super helpful. Looking forward to the herb and flower collection!
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