This is a lovely collection of easy to grow small plants. All do well in containers and can be grown indoors or outdoors.
Growing your own food — even just a bit of your own food — is something we are passionate about. And the little plants in this collection give you a low-stress way to be a grower any time of year and in any size of growing space.
With these little plants you can watch the growing process unfold on your windowsill, table top, patio, or under your grow lights.
The collection includes:
Tiny Tim and Orange Hat Micro-Dwarf Tomatoes. Both are nice and compact and a 1-gallon pot will do just fine for each. And despite their small size, both are good producers of great tasting cherry tomatoes. Tiny Tim has red cherry tomatoes and Orange Hat has orange cherry tomatoes.
Tulsi (Ocimum tenuiflorum) also known as sacred basil, is widely grown in homes across India. It has beautiful light green leaves with a tinge of purple on its stems. And it is good to know that Tulsi is easy to grow from seed. Use the fresh leaves for tea or to infuse in (unheated) water. Or simply eat the fresh leaves.
Hedou Tiny Pak Choy is a very mini pak choy at only 3 to 4 inches tall. It has crisp white stems and dark-green vitamin-rich leaves. It is fast growing. Its tiny size works perfectly for containers and small gardens. Pak choy is very easy to grow. Cruciferous leafy greens in Family Brassicaceae, such as Hedou Tiny pak choy, are a nutritional ‘Powerhouse’. Check out our link about ‘Powerhouse Leafy Greens’.
A bit more:
Growing food from seed in your backyard or on your windowsill or under grow lights can be an experience of doing things “to scale” and “enoughness”. “Enoughness” is finding the balance of satisfying your needs — both within your own limits — and within nature’s limits. Which brings us full circle to the central tenet of E.F. Schumacher’s classic book “Small is Beautiful”, the namesake of our seed collection, which is a book about learning to appreciate “enoughness”.
A brief summary of the book from Wikipedia:
“Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of essays published in 1973 by German-born British economist E. F. Schumacher. The title “Small Is Beautiful” came from a principle espoused by Schumacher’s teacher Leopold Kohr (1909–1994) advancing small, appropriate technologies, policies, and polities as a superior alternative to the mainstream ethos of ‘bigger is better’.”
We think sowing a seed and nurturing a plant is a very good example of “small is beautiful” in action.
Happy Small Plant Planting!
