Today was my first gardening day of the year! As usual, it took longer than I thought, but hopefully we will get some greens out of it!
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Washed and cleaned plastic seedling containers
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Started seeds with leftover seed packets from last year, tried using topsoil I got for free at the TN Local Food Summit, but was dubious it would work well due to the big pieces of mulch in the mix, so we went to Ace and got a peat moss potting soil mix. While we were there, we took a picture of the back of Ferry-Morse seed starter kit instructions. This is what I followed last year and it worked!
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Seeds we started to go indoors: bok choy, hot pepper, red cabbage, some herbs…
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We also went ahead and started an early spring chaos garden bed with evergreen bunching onion, gladstone onion, micro greens mild mix, german chamomile, and garden chives. hopefully this bed takes some of this!
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Went ahead and seeded a few pots of ’true catnip’; hopefully ours grows as big as Emilys!
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Per usual, I wish I had taken better notes last year that I could reference now…but we keep moving forward! Have to remember, this is a learning journey.
Tomorrow’s To-Do:
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Transplant red maples to front yard
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Move sheds and screw down a board to the bottom of them; organize outdoor equipment
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Order some willow starts/cuttings
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Buy seed potatoes
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Finish transplanting trees, bushes, canes, and crowns
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Direct sow hardy roots (carrots, beets), peas, spinach, fava beans, asian greens, and swiss chard
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https://www.epicgardening.com/february-gardening-tasks/ - prune perennials we do have and clean up the leaf litter I put on the beds, should I just leave the beds exposed? clean, sharpen, and organize garden tools / outdoor tools, schedule mosquito dunk bucket day,