SEEDS!

Thankfully, seeds were 50% off the day I went to pick up most of the new ones. I am going to try using some leftover seeds from 2006, too (these are lying down on the counter in photos). All new seeds are propped up along the back, against the wall. How am I ever going to fit all this potential from the Seed Lab in the yard? I don’t know. Have to figure that out next ….

First Outside — this week

• Onion, evergreen white bunching
  
• Parsely, Italian flat leaf
  
• Parsely, Italian flat leaf (2006) — plant in circle garden
  
• Lettuce, bib limestone
  
• Rocket (2006)
  
• Mache, winter lettuce (2006)
  
• Swiss chard, bright lights
  
• Spinach, smooth leaf (2006)
  
• Lettuce, looseleaf blend
  
• Radish, icicle (2006)
  
• Radish, French breakfast (2006)
  
• Peas, Alaska early bush (shelling)
  

First Inside — already done!
These were started in the peat containers last Thursday.

• Lettuce, garnet oakleaf
• Chives (2006) — most of these will go in the circle garden or in front beds
• Chives (2007)
• Garlic Chives
• Leeks, giant musselberg
• Carrots, little finger (2006)
• Carrots, purple haze (2006)
• Fennel
• Broccoli, green sprouting calabrese
• Broccoli raab
• Cauliflower, early snowball
• Squash, yellow crookneck (2006)

Mid- to late-April Outside

• Eggplant, twilight hybrid (keep under cloche)
• Garden beans, pencil pod wax bush (2006)
• Garden beans, jade

Sow Inside in Later April

• Pumpkin, sugar or pie
• Cucumber, space master
• Cucumber, lemon
• Zucchini, jackpot hybrid bush (2006)
• Zucchini, black beauty bush
• Round zucchini, bush summer squash
• Squash, scallop bush mix
  

Sow Inside in May

• Brussel sprouts, dwarf improved
  

Sow Outside in May

• Garden beans, Blue Lake Bush
• Lettuces, chives (rescatter, if there’s any room!)
  

Sow Mid-Summer Outside

• Endive, green curled
• Lettuces (rescatter, if there’s any room!)
  

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When I get the tomato transplants, I will underplant them with common vetch. We learned in our soil-building class that this can help replace nitrogen as well as reduce weeds and soil compaction.

The Plan for the Peat Trays

I’m using a garden notebook my friend Shannon gave me. So far, I have only graphed the first indoor sowing, as I am saving some rows in the peat trays for next month’s indoor planting.

Last year I devised this patented notation system, creating codes for the seeds since the first time I did this, I didn’t know what anything was when it started sprouting. I also place a patented locator figurine in the trays. These must stay in position so I can stay oriented. This year, I am using dinosaurs — a brontosaurus in Tray 1. A stegosaurus in Tray 2.
Makeshift Greenhouse

The little library/hallway has south-facing windows and a perfect surface to fit the trays. Here’s where they stay. I like to rotate the trays a little over the weeks, though I am sure it probably makes no real difference in the actual light they get.

Warm in New Home
Crossing my fingers for a warm jungle of sprouts soon!