To soak or sprout seeds before planting is an option to speed up germination time. It is an option, not required. However, we have used it often enough to dedicate a blog article to it. Difference between soaking and sprouting Soaking seeds means putting seeds in water to give ...
Gardening
How to Deal with Multiple Seedlings in one Pot
Seedlings are great for short-season gardeners. They help us to extend the growing season upfront. In this blog article, we are looking into how to deal with multiple seedlings in one pot. With good seeds, we often get 100% germination. Since we plant about 3 seeds per pot, to make sure we get at ...
Starting Seeds in Vermiculite
Starting seeds in vermiculite is one of many great tips from the All New Square Foot Gardening book. It is a good method that can be used to start indoor seedlings grown in soil, outdoor planting, and hydroponics. Try it and let us know if you like it. There's no one-size-fits-all ...
Early spring direct garden planting
Early spring direct garden planting is a subject that comes up regularly among gardeners. How early can seeds be directly sown in the garden? Let's look into this from a theoretical but even more so from a practical point of view. First, let me begin by saying that we are discussing early spring ...
Growing Figs in Cold Climate
Figs are a sweet treat that is usually grown in a warm climate. As cold climate gardeners, figs usually do not even cross our minds until someone shares on social media something about their figs. Growing figs in a cold climate is possible. We get asked a lot about how we grow figs, so here we share ...
Maintaining a no-till garden
Maintaining a no-till garden is simple, but it is not without work. You replace the tilling and digging with mulching and covering the garden soil. A covered soil does not have to be tilled. It stays soft and becomes better the longer it is maintained. We cover the question of to-till or ...
Starting a new no-till garden with tilling
This blog article is about starting a new no-till garden with tilling. We are sharing how we converted a pasture into a garden. We talked about methods to start an instant no-till garden, also how to convert the existing tilled garden into no-till. Today we are sharing yet another way to ...
3 No-Till Gardening Methods
No-till or no-dig gardening methods are on the rise in popularity. The idea of starting an instant garden without the back-breaking work of digging sounds very appealing to an instant culture. To be honest with you, it took me a while to understand the no-till methods. Not because they are ...
Starting Seeds Indoors
Winter in our area isn't over yet. The last frost day is still a few months away. But spring is coming and with it the next growing season! Starting seeds indoors is the start of it. When we say starting seeds indoors it doesn't mean in the house (even though it can be that), but in an enclosed ...
Spring Indoor Seed-Starting Schedule – Free Printable
After using this spring indoor seed-starting schedule for annual vegetable seeds for several years now, do we still recommend it, or is it time for a new plan? The schedule comes from the All New Square Foot Gardening book. Mel Bartholomew, the author, is known for simplifying things. That ...
