Ooh Baby, Baby (plants)

Warmer weather means it’s time to get some plants in the ground! I thought I’d give you a shot of my little indoor seedling operation at this point. These are the early more cold-hardy transplants - I’m just about to start the warm season crops next week.

Napa cabbage seedlings

One day after they emerged from the soil

Green onion seedlings

About 5 weeks old, just about to go into the garden

Indoor plant starting shelves

These shelves can hold 32 flats of seedlings, or about 3000 plants.

Aren’t the little plants cute? Just like human babies, they entail a lot of work. I’m on a non-stop cycle of planting seeds in cell trays, watering the seedlings growing under lights or in the hoophouse, hardening them off to live outside, and transplanting. I’m growing about a hundred different plantings of vegetables and flowers this year in my 1/4 acre, which is too much to keep track of in my head. I made a spreadsheet to organize the planting; here’s a little snippet of it to give you a sense:

Pretty soon, I’ll be able to show you some plants growing out in the garden! Looking forward to that.

Take care,

Susan