We spend winter looking forward to warmer days, dreaming of a garden that reflects the beauty in the seed catalogs we pour through. Even while it’s still cold out, the much-awaited time comes for spring planting.
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seed starts
Tour Our Summer Garden
The summer is still hot, but we’re already looking toward fall. Join us for a tour of our summer garden. Some of the plants in our garden have been harvested completely, some are finishing up and looking a little sad in the summer heat and unusually dry weather, but we still have some we’re very much looking forward to harvesting. Find out what we planted for the first time this year, what did well for us, what didn’t quite work as planned. In addition, what will be in our fall garden.
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Soil Blocks for Plant Starts
This year, we are going to try a new approach to starting seeds, hopefully, with more success.
Prior Years
We have used hex cell starter trays but found they get to be too small too soon.
We have also planted seeds in a few spots per pot in larger pots. However, we found it more difficult to have a place for them to be put in the sun but out of the way of mischievous house pets….