On Sunday morning I was up just after 6AM, much to someone’s disgust. Once he was fed, I got my post up. Then at 8AM I got started drawing the paper garden plans. I’d really messed up making the online plans as I hadn’t gotten all the changes from 2024 entered in.
So I had to make a lot of corrections as I drew. But I finally finished around 11AM and went in to put the corrections on the computer.
I had also made a list of all the herbs and flowers in the New Herb garden. That’s the little papers on the sides. This year there are 63 herbs and 7 flowers in that garden. I finished the online corrections around noon and had some lunch.
Then I hauled my box of seeds out of the spare fridge and started sorting seeds. In the spring, as I sow the seeds, the packets go into a bag labeled “planted”.
Then the next year I sort them alphabetically and check the dates on the packets. This year I am discarding 2022 seeds. I will give them to my granddaughter’s mom and she will toss them outside at her house and see what comes up. I’m sure some of them are viable.
Once the type (herbs, vegs, flowers) are sorted and I then sort them alphabetically and enter each packet on the inventory sheet for its type. I check how many seeds are left and put a small amount of biology into each packet. This insures each seed will have the biology it needs to start. That’s what the little white jars are.
Once they are entered in the inventory and kept alphabetical, I take the bags (see previous photo) with dates on them and a list I made for that type of seed (herb, flower, veg) and their preferred starting dates and sort them into the bags. They are kept in a large bag for their type. I do this process for all 3 types. And in the end they are already for each starting date. I just take out the 3 bags bearing the correct date and I’m ready to seed start. The first date for me is March 1.
Tom arrived with the milk order in the middle of this process and we visited while I worked. I finally finished around 5PM, a very long day for me. I sat down for a while then made supper, got the fires going well, and went to bed at 8PM.
Sunset, but looking east
On Monday I don’t have exercise class due to the fumes from the cellar floor repair at the Town Hall permeating the entire building. In fact, it’s closed, possibly for the week.
But I have plenty of laundry, kitchen cleaning, showering, and seed orders to make to keep me busy all day. It’s to be a sunny and relatively warm day. May not need to tend stoves so much… I should slot my PT work in due to no exercise class…
It was my understanding that when seeds are refrigerated they do not germinate, at least that is what I was led to understand. But apparently you do it and there is no problem. Good planning for your garden 👍🏻
Actually seeds that are kept at a stable temp and humidity last a long time. While I said I discarded any from 2022, there is one I did not. The marigolds are from 2013 and still come up like they were last year's...
Some people even keep them in the freezer, but I don't have the room. Some seeds need to vernalize meaning they NEED cold for a certain period to germinate.
Wow, that's an interesting fact I didn't know 👍🏻
You are really doing a great job I must confess
It's good to work with seeds from which crops will grow, very busy day
What do you use the milk for? On the farm?
For me, it;s milk and eggs for making meals.
I think Larry could be so rude in the morning. My cats were fed up with my irregular hours in the morning and they had stopped waiting for me in front of the door. They went to the downstairs kitchen to have their food. If the food bowl was emptied by the two stray cars, Kwan would be complaining like crazy to me.
I hope that one day I could get really organised and have my greenhouse set up for planting regularly. My gardener did all the vegetable garden and sell the produce to local market.
I'm really impressed with the way you are getting work done. Also it's like you don't like running out of milk although?
I HATE running out of cream. I use it in a lot of things, nearly every day.
You are most certainly very organized. Me not so much! lol
#hive #posh
For me, it's cream and eggs, for making meals.
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