anyone start seeds yet? | Food Production and Preservation | Forums

We did seeds for our peppers and tomatoes 2 weeks ago.  The tomatoes are up, the peppers are always slower though.

Trying to establish some bigger plants this year and push for a earlier harvest. 

We cut back on the number of plants this year, not sure we will have much time to do much in the garden this year. 

Plan on doing onion sets, pumpkins, potatoes, carrots.  The raspberries, rhubarb and asparagus should do fine on their own.  Garlic was put in last fall too. 

EP, not sure what we are doing right, but we have good pumpkins every year.  Just plant the seeds, water them, mulch, keep them watered and leave them alone.  For pumpkins we just buy cheap Wal Mart seeds. 

The only thing we really have going for us is that we have very organically rich soil (lot's of rotted silage).

Good point about the Ph.  I know that ours was very Alkaline once we got down about 10 inches. By mixing in the rotted silage and a little bit of cow manure in the fall if became quite good.  We still do that.  And we also mulch with silage right when we plant the throughout summer we tenderly mulch with grass clippings.

Then we toss leaves/tons of grass/etc into our compost 'hill'.  We probably have about a 3 yard pile of compost now, plan on using it next year when we put in a new set of raised beds for the new house.