Hello! Welcome back to the Homestead!
Last week I started some seeds. I’m trying to limit the seeds that I start indoors this year. Every year I get overly ambitious, start an absurd number of different types of plants, and then it’s a stressful race against the clock to get everything in the ground before it becomes leggy, rootbound, or straight up dies from being over or under watered. Then 2 years ago I learned the importance of properly hardening things off when a bunch of my seedlings died of sun scald. Hardening off is kind of a pain when a person has a full time job off the homestead. My commute is 45 minutes each way; I can’t just run home on my lunch break to pull the plants in if the sun is more intense than I expected.
All this to say - this year I decided to do as much direct seeding as I possibly can. The only things I am starting indoors are my tomatoes, bell peppers, and possibly corn. I know corn is an uncommon one for starting indoors, but my growing season is so short that I can’t plant the corn outside until the second week of June, and I just haven’t had good luck with that. So this year I will try starting it inside the second or third week of May, harden it off to the best of my ability the first week of June, and transplant it the second week.
Wish me luck! And good luck to any of you that are planting this season; may you have sunny days and get enough rain. Let me know what you’re growing in the comments below!
