Hope you're all enjoying the flurry of activity around here lately. Hopefully it'll continue through at least the spring and summer. Basically we're just real excited about getting started on the gardens and the chickens and all of it. There's just something that's both exciting and freeing about coming out of winter and moving into spring. Makes me want to get stuff done. And put it here so I can remember what I did this year later. Anyway, right now we're starting seeds and getting ready to build beds and whatnot.
We've aready decided what to plant. We even planned it all out on graph paper. then Greebo pooped on it (I mistyped that at first, I said he poped on it, but he's never even been near a funny hat or robes) I don't know if the pooping was because he dislikes the time we're spending not petting him, or it's just the natural reaction of an obligate carnivore to the cultivation of vegetables, but either way it was a bit of a bummer.
Above is the pile of seed packets we're using this year. Many of them are saved from last year, but we did get quite a few new varieties this year. Basically, most of the major seed suppliers run great deals early in February and you can get seeds at around $1.00 a packet. Makes it real easy to go overboard. But then again, we did fit them all in and we did it with half the number of raised beds then we were originally thinking.
On to seed starting. That table with sad little lamp and peat pots is our seed starting table. The lamp is a self ballasted HID type lamp and it's great for what it costs ($80) one will grow a Tomato plant right to the edge of setting fruit. Once we put out the rest of the seeds we'll bring out th eother one we have and maybe even the fluorescents. We'll see how crazy it looks in a few weeks when pretty much everything is growing in there.
This also starts a series of posts that will be me trying to sort out what's going on with the garden. I'm going to set out tables of what we started, what we ended up planting where and how it eventually worked out. This should allow my evil plan, to bore the living snot out of you, to come to full fruition. I hope. Anyway, here's a quick image of the garden spreadsheet version 0.1 Alpha.
Thanks for reading, I look forward to comments from all of you (otherwise it REALLY feels like I'm talking to myself here) and hope everyone has a bang-up start to spring.
We've aready decided what to plant. We even planned it all out on graph paper. then Greebo pooped on it (I mistyped that at first, I said he poped on it, but he's never even been near a funny hat or robes) I don't know if the pooping was because he dislikes the time we're spending not petting him, or it's just the natural reaction of an obligate carnivore to the cultivation of vegetables, but either way it was a bit of a bummer.
Above is the pile of seed packets we're using this year. Many of them are saved from last year, but we did get quite a few new varieties this year. Basically, most of the major seed suppliers run great deals early in February and you can get seeds at around $1.00 a packet. Makes it real easy to go overboard. But then again, we did fit them all in and we did it with half the number of raised beds then we were originally thinking.
On to seed starting. That table with sad little lamp and peat pots is our seed starting table. The lamp is a self ballasted HID type lamp and it's great for what it costs ($80) one will grow a Tomato plant right to the edge of setting fruit. Once we put out the rest of the seeds we'll bring out th eother one we have and maybe even the fluorescents. We'll see how crazy it looks in a few weeks when pretty much everything is growing in there.
This also starts a series of posts that will be me trying to sort out what's going on with the garden. I'm going to set out tables of what we started, what we ended up planting where and how it eventually worked out. This should allow my evil plan, to bore the living snot out of you, to come to full fruition. I hope. Anyway, here's a quick image of the garden spreadsheet version 0.1 Alpha.
Thanks for reading, I look forward to comments from all of you (otherwise it REALLY feels like I'm talking to myself here) and hope everyone has a bang-up start to spring.