Our indoor gardening days are really starting to stack up, the pressure is mounting week by week. Our sowing and transplanting days are now taking the better part of the afternoon!
We opened up our third indoor nursery today, this one in our dining room. This area helps with our early nursery expansion needs, when we can’t yet harness our heated greenhouse due to colder temperatures. Eventually, this area becomes the resting place for our peppers while we wait for warmer outdoor temperatures.
We’re up to almost at 500 transplants going right now, all indoors. In recent years, our final target lands around 1,200 transplants total. So, we’re almost to the half way point with a mere seven weeks to last frost!
We’ve also got just over 1,000 seeds currently germinating or in very early growth stages at this point. We’ll be hitting our peak germination point next weekend and fortunately after this, the germination side of things finally starts to slow down a bit.
Lots of notable sows this weekend. All of our herbs are now in, except for dill. We also kicked off phase two of our brassicas, with our broccoli going under soil. A few favorite flowers, too, like Dahlia and Phlox.
Things are starting to get real! We wish the outdoor temperatures would start cooperating with us, but so far, that’s not in the cards. We’re wanting to eyeball the next phase of our process, hardening off and getting plants into our semi-heated greenhouse! With single digits lows still expected, we’re just not there yet.
