This far North, gotta plant the seedlings roughly one month before the last frost, initially under a plastic dome, and some days before transplanting them out, they need to do a period of acclimation to avoid getting too cold or burning under the sun, so they do increasing hours out & sleep indoors.
Winter months are spent planning and shopping for seeds, for those I don’t just finish prepping from the previous years harvest (stored in the cold and dark until then)
A wonderful window, thank you! 🙏🏻 Looks like you’re planting certain different seeds in deliberate ways around one another. What sorts of outcomes are you designing for there?
Some are companion plants!
- Corn / Beans / Squash are the 3 sisters
- radishes provide early ground cover to carrots
- Tomatoes/Peppers are high nitrogen consumers
- peas / beans fix nitrogen and provide shade to lettuce.
3 year rotations across families manage nitrogen and pests!
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- Corn / Beans / Squash are the 3 sisters
- radishes provide early ground cover to carrots
- Tomatoes/Peppers are high nitrogen consumers
- peas / beans fix nitrogen and provide shade to lettuce.
3 year rotations across families manage nitrogen and pests!
Here’s the previous year’s plan for rotations. Left topmost box is an experimental one, bottom 3 cycle every year.