Starting Seeds: Tomatoes, Peppers and Eggplants

The full moon is on it’s way to its time to start our vegetables that grow above ground and seed inside their fruit. We will be direct sowing our peas, beans, cukes and zukes later, so for now that means tomatoes, peppers and eggplant. That might not seem like a lot but considering all the different varieties of each, it adds up! 

Starting Seeds, Lunar Gardening, and Kicking off the 2015 Garden Season!

So there really isn’t that much time off. We are usually out of the garden, depending on the weather, in October. But there are still things to put up. Sometimes it’s November or December before I get around to baking and freezing my pumpkin puree. Peppers dry down on their own nicely and are still quite usable so they usually get pushed aside for more urgent vegetables (cough, cough, tomatoes).  So I am often still putting away garden stuff  into December and in early February the seed catalogs start coming and it’s time to pick and plan for summer!

The Farm Garden: Make your own Seed Starting/Potting Mix

It’s March so it’s time to start some cool season crops from seed. Seed starting mix can get pretty expensive and can still have lumps and big particles messing it up. So, always the thrifty ones, we make our own potting mix. And it couldn’t be easier!