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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. E-mail him at craig.sailor@thenewstribune.com.

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A Gardening Blog
Thursday, March 27th, 2008
Posted by Craig Sailor @ 11:09:57 pm

After leaving Abil Bradshaw's "Food Folly Follies" http://www.abilnutritionist.com/ Monday night I stopped by my favorite grocery store in Puget Sound: Uwajimaya in Seattle's International District. http://www.uwajimaya.com/

While stocking up on udon, dashi and stuffing my mouth with all the sushi I could eat (Kobayashi-style) I also picked up these:

Uwajimaya has many varieties of Japanese and Asian vegetable seeds. Many I'm not familiar with but I figure you can't go wrong with shiso and onions.

I'll let you know how they do in Freak of Nature garden this year.

Now, if only the snow would quit falling...

Categories: Vegetables 1 comment

COMMENTS:

Sue Kidd @ 14:00 - Friday, March 28th, 2008 Email
Craig Sailor, you are so giving me one of these starts, seeing as how you did not share ANY of your shiso with me last year. I pledge to give you 25 zucchinis this year if you cough up a start for me.

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