Do you garden? Please share your wisdom with me!
February 17, 2013
Spring Sprouts!
I've been thinking about spring this week. I've loved and embraced my first midwestern winter, but I suppose the Floridian in me is finally catching up. Now I'm eagerly anticipating when I'll be able to walk outside unhindered by coat and scarf and sink my fingers into cool soil.
I've never had my own garden, but I've watched my parents till the ground and helped place seeds in little mounds. This year though, I finally have a place and space to try my own hand at gardening. I think I want to begin an herb garden first. I'm undecided though whether I should start it indoors our outside...and in general I've been hunting for all the tips and inspiration I can get.
Do you garden? Please share your wisdom with me!
Do you garden? Please share your wisdom with me!
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Well, if I were you, I would start indoors. That's the way I do it, and I actually think it's a lot more fun. But also, since you're so far north, your average last frost date is something like the end of May (you can look that up online somewhere, if you haven't already), so you'll get a big head start on the season if you start indoors.
ReplyDeleteIf you're looking to buy seeds, I use these catalogs: John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds; Cook's Garden; sometimes Burpee; and my favorite, Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Let me know if you want to go in on an order or two together (you almost always get many more seeds than you can possibly use, and while they do keep for a while, they don't keep forever)!
Gardening is so much fun! Super easy things to grow when first starting out: mint, arugula, basil, radishes, chives. Also zinnias - you get lots of flowers for cutting in exchange for almost no work at all!
Well, I could go on, but I won't!