Hi Everyone!
Here it is March 2 and I'm getting my garden ready. As you may know I wasn't going to have a garden this year. I wanted to give the grounds a rest. However, with president musk and his russian sidekick raising the prices on all food goods, I thought I had better get to growing. Even though the weather is not playing nice I am getting a start on as much as I can indoors. This photo is walking into my art room. I know I need an outdoor garden building. It is what it is. Here I have 104 cells with all kinds of veggie seedlings. 2 containers with lettuce and radishes. 1 container with sweet potato starts, 1 container with red onion starts and a pot with sweet onion. In addition this morning I started 6 pots of russet potatoes. This window shot is the south side of my yard.
Friday I soaked seeds that needed it and snipped ends of flat seeds. Then the fun starts. Get the soil prepared and fill the cells.
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I have used this same 72 seed cell for a few years now.  |
It's nice that it has a tray and a humidity cover.  |
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These are starter cells with not tray or humidity cover. So they go into a plastic container and I use the lid. It works  |
These are the other containers I mentioned above. Look how much the potted onion has grown from last week.  |
I'm truly on an onion kick. I love that all of them have come from my garden or ends of store bought. I don't think I will have to order any starters this year.
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Red onion from last years garden. The inside of the onion is starting to grow.  |
Once it is peeled and onion separated I soak the roots. This is actually optional.  |
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In a few days you will have healthy roots  |
These really are beautiful.  |
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I have them starting in a dollar store container. I've never started onions like this so we will see how they grow.  |
In these cells I have sweet onions coming up.  |
Now, this is something I have never done before either. My seed potatoes are READY to be planted. However, the weather is very rainy and still too cold at night. I know a lady that starts her potatoes indoors and of course I did some research on it. So here it goes.
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I always use bone and blood meal. I don't have the blood meal right now.
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I have a bucket of soil and add some Bone meal and mix it up. Also moisten the soil now.
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I have a 6" pot that I put about 1/4 of soil.  |
Add just a bit more Bone Meal.  |
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Add the seed potato, eyes up.  |
Top with soil, water and pack down the soil a bit.  |
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I got 6 containers with russets.  |
I did cut some of these down so they can be planted in a few days.  |
I know people that cut some of the eyes off when they are in clusters like this. I don't. I have never had a bad harvest so I leave them. Most russets are intermediate potatoes. This means they grow vertically in the soil producing tubers along the stem. So, I'm confident that when the weather is right I will be able to replant these.
Are you planting a garden this year? If so share with me your garden tips.
Have a great day
Nicole
