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!
