Another sign that this year got off to a busy start

[jaunthie]

Normally by this time of the year I'd have a number of seedling trays started under the grow light, with lots of little baby plants being coaxed along. I might even be starting to think about the hardening-off process, where I switch the trays and light from the furnace room (nice and warm) to my garage (not warm, but more protected than outdoors).

This year? Nada. Haven't started a single tray. No nasturtiums, no herbs, no caledulas, no nothin'. And given that it's almost April already, I'm thinking that I might not bother this year, and instead experiment with direct-sowing outdoors. Or just buying a few plants at the local nurseries/plant sales for those things I don't think will work with direct sowing (hello, basil!).

*sigh*

Better time and resource management? Or just failure to get it in gear? You tell me.

Comments

[tylik.livejournal.com]

Do you do the Tilth plant sale? That's my favorite place to pick up things I didn't start. (Though this year... well, I'm going to be leaving in June.) It's a madhouse, but a happy madhouse.

[jaunthie.livejournal.com]

I've done Tilth once; it usually winds up happening on a weekend when I am either a) out of town or b) completely booked or c) unaware of its occurance until two weeks afterwards. Actually, it's usually C. But yeah, it's fabu. Do you know when and where it's happening this year?

[tylik.livejournal.com]

It's always the first weekend in May at the Good Shepherd Center (roughly 50th and Sunnyside).

http://www.seattletilth.org/events/edible-plant-sale

This year I probably oughtn't to go... *sniff*

[(Anonymous)]

Hey! Let's talk gardening parties! I've got a number of full time working women garden friends all of whom (including thee and me!) have been bemoaning the amount of work there is to do in their individual gardens and the lack of time there is in which to do said work.
So I thought that if we banded together and everyone focused on one person's garden one weekend day per (week?, two per month?, whatever our schedules can work out) that we could manage to get much more work done in a much shorter period of time.
Hostess/garden owner to provide lunch and appropriate bevvies.

Whaddya think?

--Jake

[jaunthie.livejournal.com]

Ooo! Ooo! OooooooOOOOooooo!!!! Sign me up!!! If nothing else, I'd love to spend more time with fellow gardening fiends and getting a chance to see what other people do with their gardens.

As for schedule - we all know that the next two months are critical gardening time. If we could manage to hit everybody's garden once in that time, I'd think we'd all win. What that looks like for real - you'd know better than I, as you know the other interested parties...