Attention all you sleepy head “from seed” far northern growers! We’ve reached the time of year you simply cannot miss! We’re at 8 weeks to our last frost, which means almost all the most popular crops are sown into soil!
Over the next three weeks, we’ll be throwing down the overwhelming majority of our crops. Be it our cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, herbs and tons of flowers. It also marks the latest point you should get started on tomatoes and peppers.
Most of you know we operate an indoor nursery, but this is also the time where you’ll toss out those milk jugs for winter sowing. This is the practice of using a jug as a mini-greenhouse, then using the outdoors and natural light to germinate a variety of cold climate friendly crops.
At least where we are at, it still doesn’t “feel” like gardening season. Our extremely rapid transition from winter to summer means we can’t use “traditional” seasonal queues to tell us when we should sow. If you wait until the snow is gone, it’ll be far too late!
Winter’s clutches are just beginning to show signs of truce here. We still have a fair bit to go until “actual spring,” but winter’s grip is beginning to loosen and soon, it will disappear like a thief in the night.
So, if you’re planning on growing anything from seed this season, it’s time to get things going and get to work! In a mere five to six weeks from now, we’ll be breaking ground on our gardens and winter will be a fading memory.
