Starting the 2021 Garden

The Spring Planting is already well underway!

We went a little crazy with seed buying this year and we’re trying out lots of new varieties. As of April 10th, we have planted:

• Sugar Snap Peas

• Shell Peas

• Patterson onion starts

• Sierra Blanca onion starts

• German giant radish

• Bull’s blood beet

• Lutz winter keeper beet

• Tatsoi

• Red Russian Kale

• Collards

• Cilantro

• Early Season Cover Crop

• de Cico Broccoli

• Romanesco Cauliflower

• Cabbage

Soil Blocks for Seed Starting

We’re trying to use soil blocks to start our indoor seeds this year, a method championed by Eliot Coleman that is supposed to help develop strong root systems in the young seedlings. The soil mixture is a combination of peat moss, compost, soil, green sand, regular sand, and a small amount of organic fertilizer.

One of the biggest benefits for us is that this system doesn’t use any plastic! We bought the medium sized soil-blocker and it’s worked pretty well so far for over 150 blocks…

We have an in-depth, written plan for our veggie garden this year. So far we’re following it about 90%. We’ll see how long that lasts….

Spring is always a hopeful time of year, when you everything is still at it’s maximum potential. I’m looking forward to seeing how things turn out!