Indoor Seed Setup!
My GroVid22 Seed Starting Setup
I am SO excited to get my seeds started. I can't wait to get digging in the gardens... and yet, when I look outside today:
It's raining, lightly, melting the deep snows and creating little pools of icy water, on top of the ice that freezes, nightly. Perhaps its a bit early yet for the outside garden?
I moved my GrowLights/seed setup from the 3 foot wide shelf (below), to the 4 foot wide shelf (Top image). I am awaiting three more 2 foot FEIT 32w Full Spectrum LED Light sets for the top shelf.
Typically, our AVERAGE last frost date is about the first week of May. I'll spend the first couple weeks of May, bringing my plants outside a few hours a day, each day for more time, to acclimate them and harden them off, bringing them indoors each night.
Working backwards, Hard frosts are mostly over with mid-April, so I can plant peas outside. backwards, even more, that means, somewhere around End of March, the grounds have thawed enough to work the soil. That means planting potato then.
So, Planting for me, on this setup pictured above, means:
• Feb 12th add boiling water to seed start mix/sterilize, soak soil starter for seeds
• Feb 15th sow pepper seeds and onion seeds indoors
• March 1st sow Cherry tomato seeds indoors
• March 15th sow the rest of Tomato seeds indoors
• March 30th plant seed potato outside (See 'em above on the 3rd shelf down?)
• April 1st plant Peas, Spinach, and Lettuce outside (those planter boxes on bottom shelf will go outside, too)
• April 1st sow Zucchini, Squash and Cucumber seeds indoors
• April 15th plant carrot outside
• May 1st plant melon, and watermelon outside
Don't forget the HiveGarden Community
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It's fun, and a great way to Garden, to be a part of a cool Hive Gardening Community, and also, to get a chance to EARN TOKENS.
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To the animals and birds around me
to put more plants in than I take out
And be a good steward for the world around me!
