A few weeks ago my wife, whom I love dearly for enabling this addiction of mine, bought me two 40 cell seed starting kits, they came with it's own seed starting medium. Since I didn't have any Mel's Mix left from creating my newest box, Yardy (because it sits in my yard duh!), I was stuck using the provided seed starting mix.
This is my first attempt at starting seeds for my garden, I have read on the SFG forums MANY different ways to start seeds. some use soil plugs others use egg cartons. Most use Mel's Mix (see All New Square Foot Gardening to find out more about Mel's Mix) and some even use vermiculite. Then there is the transplanting that needs to happen. I was very intimidated to say the least. A little while back I started De Cicco Broccoli in those seed cells I mentioned earlier. I now have baby broccoli coming up in 10 of the 12 cells I planted. If this tells you my confidence level I also have broccoli starts sitting right next to my seedlings. Either I am going to have a bumper crop this year of broccoli or I am going to be very happy that I bought broccoli starts :P lets hope for the former and not the later.
And coming back to last night, sorry for the side track there. While eating my pancakes in the kitchen and staring at my mini grow light operation I realized that I needed to plant some other seeds. It just came over me that I had empty cells and seeds that needed planting, welcome to my life, I can be very ADHD sometimes. so I pulled out my seeds and thought about my plans that I had sort of drawn up and went to town. I planted some saved seeds from red and yellow bell peppers, unknown variety and some Black Beauty Eggplant I went ahead and filled the rest of the cells with seeds. I can't wait to see them start popping their little heads out of the soil. I then soaked my peas and gave them a dose of inoculant and planted 32 peas :D
although not elegant looking here is what my garden plans are as of today:
 arugula, (16) | arugula, (16) | arugula, (16) | arugula, (16) |
 Parris Cos, (16) | Parris Cos, (16) |  spinach, (9) | spinach, (9) |
Red Romaine, (16) | sylvestra, (16) |  Butterhead, (4) | Butterhead, (4) |
Red Romaine, (16) | Red Romaine, (16) | Black Seeded Simpson, (16) | Black Seeded Simpson, (16) |
Shady in the Summer
 peas, (8) | peas, (8) | peas, (8) | peas, (8) |
 eggplants, (1) | eggplants, (1) | eggplants, (1) | eggplants, (1) |
 broccoli, (1) | broccoli, (1) | broccoli, (1) | broccoli, (1) |
broccoli, (1) | broccoli, (1) | broccoli, (1) | broccoli, (1) |
Sunny
 Haricot Verts, (4) | Haricot Verts, (4) | Haricot Verts, (4) | Haricot Verts, (4) |
 peppers, (1) | peppers, (1) | peppers, (1) | peppers, (1) |
 Not Planted | Not Planted | Not Planted | Not Planted |
 Italian Flat Leaf Parsley, (2) |  garlic, (4) | garlic, (4) | Italian Flat Leaf Parsley, (2) |
Yardy
 tomatoes, (1) | tomatoes, (1) | tomatoes, (1) | tomatoes, (1) |
 Opal Basil, (2) | Shallots, (4) | Shallots, (4) | Opal Basil, (2) |
 Red Onions, (9) | Red Onions, (9) | Yellow Onions, (9) | Yellow Onions, (9) |
 Nantes Carrots, (16) | Nantes Carrots, (16) |  Hollow Crown Parsnips, (9) | Hollow Crown Parsnips, (9) |
I will see if I can come up with a better way of displaying this information.
Some things of note in Shady. I have already told you that I basically carpet bombed it with leafy greens what I haven't mentioned, I don't think is that I am planting concurrent crops for the most part. I have planted peas in with the arugula, even before it has sprouted :P hope it works. I did read that you can plant these two together, arugula being nitrogen loving and peas being nitrogen fixing it seems a match made in heaven :D
Until next time, Happy Gardening!
Until next time, Happy Gardening!
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