The Potager Baby Nursery

This room is for conversations about seed starting and taking care of seedlings, sharing our experiences, failures and successes.  Also a place to share photos of your baby seedlings and we can all be there for support when it is time to send them out into the world. 

Seed planting is such an exciting time. We get to watch a tiny little seed turn into a plant that can produce food to feed our family. A plant is a living thing, we plant the seed, the plant is born and grows. We should learn all about what it needs so we can give it the best chance to survive. Our vegetable plants have a time span from when we plant the seed to the time of maturity. That is from planting the seed to harvest. A danvers carrot's average maturity is 70 days. That is from planting the seed to harvest.  A Poinsett 76 cucumber is 65 days to maturity. So we look on the calendar and mark when we planted the seed and we will know when to expect harvest. We know that plants do well with a companion if it is the right companion, we learn what we can plant our baby plant next to before we put it out in the garden. 

Do you have babies in the nursery?  Do you have a garden planner?  We would love to hear about your nursery babies. 

Grandma Donna wrote, it has been 18 days since I started the first spring seeds.  I am trying to grow these plants without any type of special lights.  I have been starting out in the morning on a ledge that gets morning sun.  I then move them to a clear tote and put them out in the sun.  I keep the lid off it the temperature is warm enough and lid loose if cold.  The sun will create heat inside the tote and can create too much heat so this has to be adjusted.  But so far all is well and on very nice days I put them out on a patio table.  

I made a mini greenhouse on my window ledge with plastic wrap to keep from having to use use grow lights. I simple put wrap partially up my window screen and attached a piece to that and pull it over and clip it to the window handles.  I unclip the handle part when it is time to let the window back down. 

Today I will be planting more seeds and I will be doing this several more weeks until the soil warms enough for the direct sow seeds.  Are you planting seeds this year?