I am in a relatively hot climate and am planting the autumn veg. Last week I bought 200, quite good sized, peat pots for $3 at 90% reduced closeout price. And a bunch of the 4/$1 plant seed packs reduced to two cents each. And stopped at the farm supply store for some seed they sell by the ounce - mostly $1 - $2 an OZ (28g) for the brassicas and same price but different amounts of weight for carrot, beet, beans and others. And some crushed oyster shell for the chickens. $8 for fifty pounds.
So I planted a couple peat pots of cauliflower, broccoli, turnip (the kind for greens rather than root) nasturtium, black seed Simpson lettuce, pickling cucumber, last week and they were all ready to go into the ground. Now I wait and see if something will come out and eat the seedlings over night. I would normally plant this stuff right into the ground but had these pots....Then beets into the ground and to go tomorrow is green beans, Siberian Kale, Chard, carrots, odds and ends, and purple potatoes. My wife picked up a bag of the gourmet tiny purple potatoes half price and they go into the pots tomorrow. I always grow some for fun, just using the ones at the supermarket, they are great fun.
Last year, purple potatoes and yellow carrots - but this year I forgot to mail order the colored carrots, so just orange ones. Will do the 4 colour ones this spring.
Fall garden, we load up on greens. I should have put in so much more but tend to run late - Mid August they should have been begun.
So I planted a couple peat pots of cauliflower, broccoli, turnip (the kind for greens rather than root) nasturtium, black seed Simpson lettuce, pickling cucumber, last week and they were all ready to go into the ground. Now I wait and see if something will come out and eat the seedlings over night. I would normally plant this stuff right into the ground but had these pots....Then beets into the ground and to go tomorrow is green beans, Siberian Kale, Chard, carrots, odds and ends, and purple potatoes. My wife picked up a bag of the gourmet tiny purple potatoes half price and they go into the pots tomorrow. I always grow some for fun, just using the ones at the supermarket, they are great fun.
Last year, purple potatoes and yellow carrots - but this year I forgot to mail order the colored carrots, so just orange ones. Will do the 4 colour ones this spring.
Fall garden, we load up on greens. I should have put in so much more but tend to run late - Mid August they should have been begun.