Hot peppers, and tomatoes behind. They’re some of the last set of seedlings, a bit of an experiment to see how late I can start ’em without slowing down later growth in the field. Outdoors, it’s been warm, gray and drizzling for two days now, things are starting to emerge, crops and weeds both, and it’s already time for a second planting of spinach and mesclun. Inside, the last several hundred seedlings are ready to be potted up and moved out to the greenhouse. We’re right at the point when things suddenly start to get intensely busy!
- Seed starting tools
- Seed starting tools II
- Return to the trays
- Seed starting station
- The watering tray
- Bare root seed starting
- Bare root Brussels sprouts
- Editing onions, counting peppers
- Seeding as we go…
- Early spring rounds
- Plug sheet action
- True leaves
- Seedling treatment
- Grow racks in action
- Jostling tomatoes
- Seedlings continue to grow…
- Getting busy
- Grow racks at night
- 1440 onions
- To the greenhouse
- Seedlings away!
- More seedlings to the greenhouse
- Greenhouse filling up
- Early lettuce heats up
Tiny Farm Blog rocks – I love the way it’s everything I do but on a massive scale.
mtp: Yeah, I still quite often look around and go, Holy hell. But it’s a cool feeling. I’m usually too swamped with stuff to do to think about it, but when I do, it feels quite massive to me. It really is a gigantic garden, exactly what you’re doing, just bigger. Of course, conventional farming is nothing like this, I read about the farm in the States that originated packaged, pre-washed salad greens, a post-hippie, organic-minded couple back in the 1980s I think, and their business is now 26,000 acres, they farm by helicopter. It’s all relative, right?! (I’m happy with my 2+ acres, maybe just a few more somewhere down the line…)