Many of you know that we like to cover both the “exciting bits” as well as the “boring bits” about gardening. We feel it’s important to illustrate both the highs and the lows behind the effort of growing your own food.
One of our tasks this week has been to prepare our initial germination space. We’ll get into the deets on our grow tent in coming days, but one of the “unintentional” roles it fulfills for us is giving us a place to hide a lot garden related stuff over the winter.
As many of you know, we usually screech into the end of the gardening season at the very last possible moment. We’re harvesting and preserving in early snow, well past where sane people stop gardening. Usually that ends up with us just shoving a ton of stuff into our grow tent that simply cannot freeze. Out of sight, out of mind as they say.
Well, this character flaw also means we have to clean it out when we fire up the next season. This means finding proper places for stuff, performing that thing called “adulting” that we sometimes temporarily ignore.
We also give our growing environment a good spring cleaning. Sometimes this means a full teardown of our grow tent, but usually it’s just some wipe downs and a light sanitization. We also check our gear, making sure things are working as expected. This year, we’ve planned a few equipment upgrades that we’ll get into soon enough.
One of the huge benefits of a “semi-dedicated” growing environment is we don’t have to entirely reinvent the wheel each season! We don’t have to mess with light timers, dialing in our lighting or figuring out power. While it might be a disaster in the early season, it’s at least a working disaster!
Anyway, we’re getting super excited here! Our 2026 garden kickoff is in a few days and for the most part, everything is ready to rock!
