Seeds!
In light of the amazingly warm weather this weekend. (I totally got trodon out of his frozen tundra of a parking spot - finally!) I'm getting excited about spring, and therefore spring gardening!
I am trying to be super organized this year with my summer garden after the semi-disaster of last year. Last year, I started everything with baby plants instead of seed, and I started them about a month too late. Then, by the time things were really starting to move along we had a really rough storm that ravaged the budding flowers on the plants, and basically gave me very very little yield. Between all of us we are going to basically have a garden on our back deck I think before the spring is over.
I did a bit of research to figure out what I could grow other than tomatoes. And not very much to my surprise, I found that the tomato plants I bought from Home Depot last year aren't really designed for Boston weather. I looked up some other stuff to figure out what else would do well in New England, and what I think I could reasonably grow. I decided to branch out a bit and picked up a better variety of tomato, a sweet pepper (I'm hoping for the best on this one), basil, celery, and onion. I eat a lot of everything other than celery, and I figured that if I got a decent amount of celery that I could easily use it in different dishes. It's very much a ubiqutous plant. I eat tons of tomatoes, onion, pepper and basil. Especially caprase salad during the summer. Fresh picked tomatoes and basil makes is absolutely amazing.
My seeds should come in the next week or so (sorry Lauren - I didn't buy from you - I don't think your company sells individual packets of seed....) and I'm going to pot them indoors until they get big enough to move outside in about 8-12 weeks. I know, that seems like a long time to have little seeds in your house, but they won't look like much for at least 4 weeks. Then they will slowly grow, and hopefully by starting them indoors, given the short growing season here, I'll have enough time to really get a decent crop this season.
The ones I did get last year were so delicious. I'm just hoping for a few more of those.
I am trying to be super organized this year with my summer garden after the semi-disaster of last year. Last year, I started everything with baby plants instead of seed, and I started them about a month too late. Then, by the time things were really starting to move along we had a really rough storm that ravaged the budding flowers on the plants, and basically gave me very very little yield. Between all of us we are going to basically have a garden on our back deck I think before the spring is over.
I did a bit of research to figure out what I could grow other than tomatoes. And not very much to my surprise, I found that the tomato plants I bought from Home Depot last year aren't really designed for Boston weather. I looked up some other stuff to figure out what else would do well in New England, and what I think I could reasonably grow. I decided to branch out a bit and picked up a better variety of tomato, a sweet pepper (I'm hoping for the best on this one), basil, celery, and onion. I eat a lot of everything other than celery, and I figured that if I got a decent amount of celery that I could easily use it in different dishes. It's very much a ubiqutous plant. I eat tons of tomatoes, onion, pepper and basil. Especially caprase salad during the summer. Fresh picked tomatoes and basil makes is absolutely amazing.
My seeds should come in the next week or so (sorry Lauren - I didn't buy from you - I don't think your company sells individual packets of seed....) and I'm going to pot them indoors until they get big enough to move outside in about 8-12 weeks. I know, that seems like a long time to have little seeds in your house, but they won't look like much for at least 4 weeks. Then they will slowly grow, and hopefully by starting them indoors, given the short growing season here, I'll have enough time to really get a decent crop this season.
The ones I did get last year were so delicious. I'm just hoping for a few more of those.
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