Fortunately for us, at 11 weeks to our average last frost date, we don’t have any active sowing assignments. This is a rare opportunity for us during the growing season, but it doesn’t mean we’re up to nothing at all!
While technically we “could” sow some things around this time, we’ve simply moved anything we would sow to 12 weeks to last frost. Everything we’d be sowing this early in the season needs a long time to either germinate or grow, so moving things a bit earlier will only benefit those plants.
We also like to have a little lull in our schedule, just in case we find anything that we need to deal with in our process or equipment. It’s been almost a year since we were last growing indoors, so having an opportunity to get our “plant legs” underneath of us is valuable.
We’re still performing daily checks of our seedlings, a process we’ll go through practically every day until we get to planting season. We’re observing our plant’s growth, tending to watering needs and soon we’ll also be assessing for the right time to transplant up our seedlings into larger containers.
We’re also preparing for the next steps in our growing process, making sure we have the consumable materials we’ll need through the rest of the growing season. Whether it’s ordering fertilizer, snagging our potting soil for the season or anything else we might want to add this season. We find shopping “early” in the season is best, especially since the rest of North America is well ahead of our schedule.
This early preparedness has proven extremely valuable to us, especially through recent years with supply chain disruptions and unexpected changes in product availability. While things are much more stable now than they were just a few years ago, we still occasionally hit “bumps in the road” that necessitate alterations to our plans.
We’re enjoying our last little bit of not being super busy, though! Starting at 10 weeks to last frost, things really start ramping up in a hurry for us. Soon, we’ll be inundated with various tasks, different stages of plant life and tracking many different things all at once.
