The Modern Victory Garden

Three-day weekend coming up for me and I am looking forward to it with more anticipation than normal, because my work schedule has been over full of late.   It also represents a a great opportunity to knock through several garden related tasks and projects that I have on my personal “to do” list.

• Start some onion and lettuce seeds  (Done - started some Pac Choi too)
• Pot up the Chinese cabbage and kale starts into larger containers (Done)
• Purchase materials to make my planting jigs (Done)
• Construct planting jig – attempt to translate the idea in my head into an actual tool  (Done)
• Process the remaining two pumpkins in the storage area into puree (freeze in 2 cup portions)  (Done)
• Do some baking – extra loaves of no knead bread for the freezer for emergency weeks, pumpkin muffins to use up some of my surplus of pumpkin puree
• Weather permitting – turn over the green manure crops of crimson clover and let them start decomposing

The seedlings I started on December 13th are a month old today and are rapidly outgrowing their starter cell pots.                                        

I am going to pot them into some larger containers and keep them under the grow lights for a while longer before eventually transplanting them under the protection of the greenhouse (or a grow tunnel) to grow to maturity.   The weather is still pretty cold and the sun strength and length is still pretty low (albeit increasing!).   I think another month under the lights is probably a good idea but they definitely need to move into more roomy quarters for their roots. 

Hopefully I will have an update soon on how the shop project (planting jigs) worked out to share with you.