Gardening: An Early Start On Your Seeds

If you are like me and have seeds leftover from the past few years. Or harvested your seeds, then now is a good time to start the new year off with organizing them. I have done well with keeping my seeds dry and in a dark place.But they are so unorganized. I have them all in their packets or even envelopes. At least I have them labeled.

I started off with going through them and seeing if I had empty packets of seeds I needed to get for this year. I had some zucchini and tomatoes. I put those on my list. Then I went through my seeds that I had and wrote all of them down. Now having the list in front of you makes it much easier to plan out what you would like to plant for the spring season.

Being I am not living in Florida at the time I also had to look up the growing season here in New York. My garden will have to be planted accordingly.

Here are a few things I will be planting in the spring:

Lettuce
Radish
Arugula
Spinach
Carrots
Beets

I have some more ideas but I will be going to the store closer to spring to see what they have. I feel I am getting off to a good start this year with being organized. We have alot of compost which I will be using to start the seeds in last year like the tomatoes and green peppers. They grew so fast. I have a bigger section now to work with which was full of overgrown weeds last year.

How is everyone else getting themselves organized for their gardens?

Our Garden Update April 2013

This year we have a new outlook on life. We have set a few goals and we are going to try and accomplish them. First and foremost is eating healthier. Of course eating healthier usually costs more than what we would normally buy on a limited budget. So we decided to take another stab at growing our own organic garden.

 As you can see things are looking pretty good. We spent very little on getting started. A wonderful person in our lives donated the seeds and we couldn't be happier. ( Remember to always play if forward with kindness) Most of the material we found. We bought a few bags of manure and worked that in the soil a few weeks before we started planting. I have compost but just started it so it won't be ready to work into the soil till the end of the year.
Growing your own food is so rewarding. I can hardly wait to make the first harvest! There will be recipes and DIY on gardening and some other things we will be throwing in. If you would like to follow the garden progress please subscribe to our youtube channel for weekly garden updates and future recipes!