Doing Spring Things in February

Last week I wrote about my love of snow and how glad I was to finally get some decent snow.  I’m still holding out for another couple of feet of snow this year, but this weekend I started getting ready for SPRING!

Yesterday I made a trip to the library to pick up a couple of tax forms and I came home with a nice stack of books on organic gardening/farming, microgreens, growing plants from seed, composting, and urban farming.  

I spent yesterday afternoon and evening reading the books and absorbing all the information and by the time bed time came around I was so excited about planting and growing vegetables that I was ready to go outside right then and start planting things.  Of course the seeds wouldn’t do so well this this weather, so I managed to have enough patience and I spent way too much time on Pinterest looking at gardening things and I decided to start some seeds inside this afternoon.

I went out through the cold rain to the shed to dig out my seed starting supplies and then proceeded to take over the kitchen and get dirt all over the counter and under my nails.

I’ve got a whole assortment of seeds, some that I saved from veggeis over the past couple of years and some left over from last year’s seed packets. 

I mixed up some organic seed starting mix with some water and some worm tea (the liquid that gathers in the bottom of the container our composting worms live in: see my post on our worm farms for more info on our sweet worms).  

This went into the seedling tray.  Then I put 2-3 seeds in each cell.  I planted tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, broccoli, jalapeno peppers, cucumber, and cantaloupe (I planted the cucumber and cantaloupe mostly to check how well those seeds will germinate, usually cucumber and cantaloupe seeds are planted right in the ground).

The greenhouse top is on and they will sit in our kitchen windowsill and hopefully soon we’ll start to see some seedlings!