Well, we’re now down to a week out to kicking off our seed starting operation! It’s barreling down the pipe faster that we expected, as usual. So, let’s talk about the “necessity” behind why we need to raise our plants indoors.
When we woke up this morning, it was pushing a brisk 35 below zero Fahrenheit. Temperatures where it hardly makes sense to differentiate Celsius. The mere idea of heating a greenhouse in these temperatures is not all that different from lighting hundred dollar bills on fire.
But, that’s not our only limitation. By this point in the winter, we’re often dealing with apocalyptic levels of snowfall. It’s all we can do to maintain access to our greenhouse, much less actually operate it. At a certain point, the limits are insurmountable by the small, home grower.
Many of the things we like to grow from seed demand early season starts to achieve the desired maturity in our season. Be it onions, celery, peppers, leek, shallot and quite a few boutique flowers we grow.
The one thing you can’t really cheat in gardening is time. Some things just take time and there aren’t methods for speeding it up. If something is going to take six months to fully mature, you have to give it that six months no matter the climate.
We’ve got a few things left to prep this week for our kick off next weekend, but the time is getting very near. In many ways, our indoor gardens counter the outdoor reality we experience and I can’t tell you how much we’re looking forward to it!
