It’s the first of March and a little closer to Spring! It’s time to get serious about our vegetable garden and get those cold weather seeds started. Although some can technically be sown in the ground now, I’m not going to dig through the snow to do it. I’ll be starting my seeds indoors instead. Since we have a small family of three and two of them are not big veggie eaters I spread out starting my seeds over several weeks, only doing a few at a time. Spinach, lettuces, peas, broccoli, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, beets, cucumbers, melons, tomatoes, peppers and onions can all be started now. If you can get to your beds and work the soil carrots can be directly sown early too.
I prefer organic and heirloom seeds when I can get them. I like to let the last bit of my garden go to seed and collect my own when I can. I have a lot of spinach and lettuce seeds collected from last fall, yay! Just about any soil mix can be used, I prefer Jiffy Natural & Organic Seed Starter Mix. I have a few peat pots left over from last spring but cardboard egg cartons work great too and I’ve seen using ice cream cones but I haven’t tried that yet, you never know!
This is one of my raised vegetable beds that my husband and son made for me. They are waist level so no bending over!
And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, [and] the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed [is] in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. ~ Genesis 1:11
