I was at Target the other night picking up a couple of things and found this great box. Just what I needed to get the seeds out of the shoe boxes they’ve been living in.
In it are all of this year’s seeds, alphabetized by type. It’s always amazing to me that a) I can fill a box that big with seeds and, alternately, b) that they fit in a box that small.
Monday I started broccoli, cauliflower, spinach, lettuce, parsley and chives in flats and put them under lights with heat mats out in the barn. Just 3 days later the first of the brassicas and lettuce are poking their heads up to say hello.
Up this weekend, it’s time to start tomatoes and peppers under lights and radish and peas outside. It looks like the weather is going to hold so I may try to sneak in a bit of prep work for onions, shallots, leeks and carrots as well.
I’m using a version of last year’s spreadsheet modified to reflect what we’re planning to grow this year. Have you set a seed starting schedule yet?