Started the garden tonight. - 02/24/09
A dozen 6" pots, each with 3 seeds of four varieties of tomato- Sub Arctic 25, Early Tanana, Swedish, and Polar Baby. Another half dozen variatals ( Polar Beauty, Siberia, et. al.) were left waiting in the wings. Extra germinations beyond one per pot will be sub-divided- not all will have room in the greenhouse, but I'll get some production off them anyway... they will all wind up in garbage-bag-lined milk cases as container plants... easy to move around, and warmer soil temps.
I buy my seeds a year ahead of time, because often they are not yet out when I want/need to plant - for tomatoes anyway. Cucs will be started in two weeks.
By mid-May, the living room with its big southern-exposure picture windows will be a jungle- then they get moved to the unheated greenhouse. Can't wait until I get my heated garage with attached heated-slab greenhouse finished. I'll probably die about then....
I'll have ripe tomatoes from mid-June thru October- sometimes well into November as the green ones harvested at freeze-up ripen on newspaper on the kitchen counter ("handy snacks"!). Cucs will last almost thru September.
They taste SO much better than the cardboard store-boughts.... even if they are a PITA.
I'll start some broccoli later to set out in my moose-fenced raised beds, along with lettuce and peas. Sometimes I throw in a few cabbage and cauliflour plants. I'll start a second lettuce crop later- as it goes rank pretty fast..
I buy my seeds a year ahead of time, because often they are not yet out when I want/need to plant - for tomatoes anyway. Cucs will be started in two weeks.
By mid-May, the living room with its big southern-exposure picture windows will be a jungle- then they get moved to the unheated greenhouse. Can't wait until I get my heated garage with attached heated-slab greenhouse finished. I'll probably die about then....
I'll have ripe tomatoes from mid-June thru October- sometimes well into November as the green ones harvested at freeze-up ripen on newspaper on the kitchen counter ("handy snacks"!). Cucs will last almost thru September.
They taste SO much better than the cardboard store-boughts.... even if they are a PITA.
I'll start some broccoli later to set out in my moose-fenced raised beds, along with lettuce and peas. Sometimes I throw in a few cabbage and cauliflour plants. I'll start a second lettuce crop later- as it goes rank pretty fast..