Grow With Carrie!

Seed to Spoon

Carrie SpoonemoreCo-creator of the Seed to Spoon app

Carrie’s garden favorites

Come Grow
With Me.

These are the seeds and supplies I reach for in my own Oklahoma garden. They’re favorites our family has grown, harvested, and loved together!

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Carrie smiling outdoors and holding Park Seed packets
Hi, I’m Carrie!

Gardener • app creator • mom of six

Zone 7 • Oklahoma

Plan, Plant, and Grow With Confidence

Know What to Plant and When!

My husband and I created Seed to Spoon to make growing food easier. Get personalized planting dates, plan your garden beds, and find help caring for your plants, all in one app!

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Seed to Spoon lettuce planting calendar with personalized planting dates
Seed to Spoon garden-bed planner showing a planned vegetable and flower garden

Favorites for spring and fall

Cool Season Favorites

I love getting back outside when the weather cools down! Spring and fall bring beautiful greens, colorful harvests, and usually a lot less insect pressure. These are the varieties I’m most excited to grow.

Purple Konstance kohlrabi

A garden staple

Konstance Kohlrabi

I didn’t even know what kohlrabi was before I started gardening. Now I grow it every year! It’s fast, delicious, edible from the bulb to the greens, and of course I love that it’s purple.

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Bright Lights Swiss chard with colorful stems

Bright Lights Swiss Chard

A favorite green that tastes especially wonderful in cool weather. Those colorful stems are absolutely beautiful!

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Dark purple Dragon carrots

Dragon Purple Carrots

Pulling a dark purple carrot from the ground never gets old. It’s fun for the kids, and honestly, just as fun for me!

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More Cool Season Favorites from My Garden

The one system I use

My Seed-Starting Favorite: The Bio Dome

Before the Bio Dome, I thought starting three or four seeds in every cell and hoping one came up was normal. Now I usually plant one seed and feel confident it will germinate!

The tray is strong, durable, and easy to carry outside for hardening off. I’ve used mine for years instead of replacing flimsy trays every season; I simply refill it with fresh planting sponges. I own several because it’s truly what I use.

Carrie holding a Bio Dome outdoors while snow falls
A snowy day outside, but seed-starting day inside!

A favorite family memory

The Georgia Jets Harvest

Two of Carrie's children holding enormous freshly harvested sweet potatoes
One very big surprise from the garden

The kids’ favorite part of gardening is harvest day. We still laugh about the day they pulled these enormous Georgia Jets sweet potatoes from the ground. We were completely surprised by their size!

Warm-season gardening gives us so much to cook, preserve, and enjoy together, from tomato sauce to all the creative things we make with zucchini.

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More Warm-Season Favorites from My Garden

Carrie, Dale, and their children together in their family garden
Our family garden, 2018
Carrie smiling behind a planted Bio Dome

How it all started

From Our Backyard to Seed to Spoon

My husband Dale and I started gardening in 2016 as part of a healthier lifestyle. Neither of us had gardened before, and we kept wishing there were a simple app to guide us.

Dale used his software background to build what we needed, and he taught me how to work in the database so I could add plants, pests, and beneficial insects. What began as a tool for our own family grew into Seed to Spoon and a way to help many more families feel confident growing food.

When Park Seed invited Seed to Spoon into its family, we found a shared goal: give gardeners trustworthy seeds, practical education, and encouragement to keep growing. Since then, Park Seed varieties have become the heart of my own garden!

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Seed to Spoon dashboard showing what to plant now and a personalized planting calendar
Seed to Spoon Growbot gardening assistant with suggested questions