Kaboom! Just like that, our indoor growing operation has more than doubled in size and the real work has begun! Today was our first huge transplanting session of the season, possibly one of our largest each year! Pretty much all of our earliest sows were moved up into their next size container.
Developing over a thousand garden starts from seed, indoors and within a relatively small space, is a fairly significant challenge. Managing the indoor growing space and performing tasks at the right time are important concepts to exercise.
For example, we need to make more room in our indoor growing areas for all these transplants. So, that means clearing out existing seeding trays is one of our primary focuses. It’s advantageous to transplant, even if it’s a bit too early, if that means we can open another “slot” under grow lights.
We also know that soon, we’ll be seeing a lot more pressure on space and time. The next few weeks bring, hands down, the most number of seeds we’ll put under soil through the whole indoor sowing season. We’ll have over well over a thousand seedlings in flight.
We also need to balance our time well. For example, we’re at 9 weeks to last frost and that means we have very few additional sows scheduled. So, we have some time that we can take advantage of and dedicate to to transplanting. Whereas next week, we’ll be at 8 weeks to last frost and that’s means we’ll be sowing a considerable number of seeds.
It took us quite awhile to develop a feel for the “ebb & flow” of our indoor nursery down to an instinctual level. You learn it by messing up, running out of room and those days where you just have way too much to accomplish reasonably.
We’re definitely feeling all this effort, but it’s good to start working the “gardening muscles” more and more. It’s great to start to see our 2026 garden take its shape!
