Good day!

I found some new sprouts today.  Celery is coming up, and they are cute and tiny!

Leeks, finally, just barely.  Can you see him there?

I put my established seedlings outside for some fresh air and sunshine (it was sunny...)

Thanks to my brother for coming over so I had a place to put them.

Hope everyone is having a great weekend : )

Melissa

Seedlings

Greetings!


This is a very exciting time for me- I am going to move into the house in Lavina in one week.  I will till, test, and amend the soil, then get right to planting!  Peas, beets, carrots, radishes, and lettuce will go right into the garden.  I will also have a lot of seeds to start in cups I've been making out of paper grocery bags.  The cups can be put right into the ground, so the roots of the plant won't be disturbed when they get transplanted.  At the White Pine Farm in Michigan - where I worked most of last year - we used a soil block press, which was very nice.  I will definitely get one of those when I can, but for this first year, I'm working with what I have.

These are a few things I have coming up already:

Marvel of Four Seasons lettuce - this lettuce is delicate and pretty.

Cabbage

All the windowsills on one side of the house are filled with onion seedlings.

Green onions

Swiss chard

I hope everyone is having a great spring.  I am ecstatic to be back in Montana and to have an opportunity to get started on my dream of farming.