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Garden Update – March 2015

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Garden update - March 2015 is very exciting! We did planting, growing and harvesting all in one month. In the Greenhouse, outdoors and indoor hydroponic.

March was a very exciting month garden wise. Partly due to an unusual early and warm spring, but more so because there was so much going on here. Seriously, March has always been very challenging for me, the long winter that seemed to never to come to an end and and spring that seemed so far away. Not this year! I have been planting, growing and harvesting all in this normally dead garden month.

Planting

Garden Update – March - starting seeds

Spring is the time to plant. In March we can start planting seedlings indoors, and in Winter Sowing outdoors. Indoors for me means in the greenhouse (for winter crops) and in the house (for summer crops). See how I start tomatoes from seeds. In the greenhouse we also have grow bags with lots of new plants. This year I also have my aeroponic Tower Garden to start seeds for.

Growing

Garden Update – Tower Garden Growth

The Tower Garden grows just like promised. Look what has grown in just two weeks since planting the seedlings into the Tower. That is amazing!

Garden Update March Greenhouse

In the greenhouse all the plants that were waiting out the long winter are taking off now. Also new plants that I started in the beginning of March grow really good.

Garden Update - Kratky Hydroponics Tomato

The Kratky hydroponic tomato experiment goes very well also. It is a set and forget system that I am trying out. If it is worth it, I will share a howto later. This plant was a seed on February 12. So it is about 6 weeks old now, and look at this root system. It all looks very promising!

Harvesting

Garden Update - Carrots Spring Harvest

Yes we did harvesting too. We harvested the overwintered carrots which we covered with some straw in the fall. Some of them were harvested in January. We did not like those all that much. It was so cold and the carrots were wet and partly frozen. So we kind of gave up on them. With our early spring I started to clean up the straw that the carrots were covered with. There was ice under the straw, so I just left it open, not even looking much into the carrots. A few days later the now open carrot tops dried and looked at me like – come harvest us! So I did. And boy was I ever surprised! These carrots are crisp and yummy! Yes, you can have a carrots spring harvest in Zone 3!

Garden Update – greens

We also harvested greens from the greenhouse and greens form the Tower Garden. It took the greenhouse greens all winter to get to the harvesting stage, but a few short weeks very enough time for a Tower Garden salad. Still, both are delicious and I look forward to many more.

March isn’t a long wait for spring any longer, things are crazy here, and we love it. I am so thankful for all we could learn so far about winter gardening even in zone 3, things I never considered possible. God made our world way more amazing than I thought. I am sure there is more to discover.

Happy gardening y’all!

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  1. Sarah Koontz {Grounded & Surrounded} says

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    I am definitely going to try to overwinter some carrots this year in my zone 4 garden, thanks for the tips! And I am planting tomatoes this week, and I LOVE your idea about starting with less soil and just adding more when it is time rather than going through the hassle of replanting them. Each year my garden gets larger, and tips like this will really save me some time.

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    • Anna says

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      Oh you are so welcome, I like things simple, so why do more ;). The carrots are great, I am sure there are other root vegetables that would keep too. Happy gardening!

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  2. Margy says

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    I don’t have a greenhouse for starting seeds, and I travel too much in March to really do it anyway. I plant directly in the soil except for a few seedlings I buy at the nursery. My garden is so small this has been the easiest for me. – Margy

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    • Anna says

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      You probably have the most unique garden though. There are lots of things that we plant directly in the soil, too. Looking forward to that time.

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  3. Angi @ A Return To Simplicity says

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    Oh, I just love seeing other people’s garden harvests each month! I think your grow tower is so awesome! Thanks for sharing at the Homestead Blog Hop this week!

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