Seedlings to Charm Spring Into Arriving
Mar. 10th, 2014 10:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
blairmacgA few days ago, I mentioned seedlings, and ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
queenoftheskies asked me what I'd be planting.
Well, I didn't get my seedlings done yesterday after all, alas, but have acquired most of the needed seed and will take care of them by the end of the week. Frankly, it's been hard to feel any urgency to start my seedlings, considering how the winter has been. After all, it'll be sixty today... with a possibility of two to four inches of snow by Wednesday. Oy.
But seedlings I shall prepare -- the commoner's demonstrated faith in spring, as if putting seeds in soil is the required ritual for drawing warmer weather near. I'm planning to start a ton of broccoli (household favorite we eat at least three times a week), lettuces, cabbage, okra, tomatoes, summer squash, winter squash, a couple different melons, mild peppers and hot peppers, perhaps a single cucumber vine. I'll direct-seed radishes, carrots, sunflowers, and maybe I'll toss in some corn and garlic. Herbs will include cilantro, basil, oregano, and chamomile.
I'm still debating potatoes, and leaning toward not. We just don't eat that many of them.
I'm also still trying to find a local source for sunchokes/Jerusalem artichokes.
Considering the expected increase in food prices coming this summer, I'm going to grow everything I'm able.
Who else is putting in a garden this year? And for the purpose of this discussion, "garden" is everything from multiple acres to a pot on the kitchen counter. :)
queenoftheskies asked me what I'd be planting.Well, I didn't get my seedlings done yesterday after all, alas, but have acquired most of the needed seed and will take care of them by the end of the week. Frankly, it's been hard to feel any urgency to start my seedlings, considering how the winter has been. After all, it'll be sixty today... with a possibility of two to four inches of snow by Wednesday. Oy.
But seedlings I shall prepare -- the commoner's demonstrated faith in spring, as if putting seeds in soil is the required ritual for drawing warmer weather near. I'm planning to start a ton of broccoli (household favorite we eat at least three times a week), lettuces, cabbage, okra, tomatoes, summer squash, winter squash, a couple different melons, mild peppers and hot peppers, perhaps a single cucumber vine. I'll direct-seed radishes, carrots, sunflowers, and maybe I'll toss in some corn and garlic. Herbs will include cilantro, basil, oregano, and chamomile.
I'm still debating potatoes, and leaning toward not. We just don't eat that many of them.
I'm also still trying to find a local source for sunchokes/Jerusalem artichokes.
Considering the expected increase in food prices coming this summer, I'm going to grow everything I'm able.
Who else is putting in a garden this year? And for the purpose of this discussion, "garden" is everything from multiple acres to a pot on the kitchen counter. :)
