Garden time!! We were able to save quite a few seeds from last year, however we still purchased a few things. During the beautiful weather last week I got to planting some of our colder crop seeds, as well as our tomatoes and peppers. I planted more seeds than I planned for the garden, assuming not all of them will make it.
I also repaired the cover for our cold frame with thicker plastic. They used to have glass but after dropping one of the frames and snow packing on top of the other they both broke. It actually works out because the glass was more fragile and heavy, and definitely a pain to clean up when it breaks. At least with plastic I can throw some tape over any tears. We tried storing our seeds in the cold frame last year but I don't think it got hot enough so germinating took forever and some seeds didn't even grow. So this year we decided on growing the onions and carrots in the cold frame and storing the seeds in our work shed where it gets sunlight and we can crank the heat up too.
We've only been gardening for two years but we have learned a ton each year and make adjustments constantly. I'm sure there are things we could be doing differently or better but we try and land on what works for us while still enjoying the process, and keeping things relatively cheap! I'm definitely known to shop the thrift stores for canning materials and we frequent the call lumber at Home Depot often. Saving our seeds was relatively easy and cut costs too.
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| BEFORE |
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| Repair materials |
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| AFTER |
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| Home remedies for adding nutrients into the soil - crushed egg shells, coffee grounds, wood ash |
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| Added soil Added sand Added nutrients |
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| Trying onion sets this year. Starting from seed takes a long time, this way we're hoping to get in two crops |
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| Onions in |
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| Seeds planted |
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| Their home for awhile - basil, lemon basil, sweet and green peppers, hot peppers, broccoli, cauliflower, tomatoes |
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