Organizing Seed?

[flowerbug]

Seems that every year I get a ways into the growing season and then find seed packet that I should have started in February. How do you organize seed to get everything planted in the right way at the right time?

i keep it simple and routine and gradually try to add a few more things here or there as i can.

one thing i don't do that often is start seeds indoors. we don't have to room for it. i can start a few pots and that is it. i usually don't. i might this year because i have a single bean seed of a certain kind and i don't want to lose it to weather or critters. we'll see.

for this coming spring that means i only have peas for early planting, beans for later planting and then any onions that survive storage that i want to use for sets or flowers (for seed production for the coming years). any earlier beans go in between the peas and later plantings of the rest of the starts that we get from the greenhouse (peppers, tomatoes and the large sweet onions), squash also goes in when the ground is finally warm enough (the end of May and into early June). the annual flower seeds go in once the ground is warm enough. since we can have snows into April the exact timing does vary.

 

[Trying2keepitReal]

one thing i don't do that often is start seeds indoors.

I don't usually start much either indoors. I do some winter sowing in milk jugs in late winter (late Feb). The one thing I do start indoors are tomatoes because I can't wait til the end of July for their yummy goodness! I was able to start 2 flats at a local farm in their greenhouse this past spring-it was so nice!

 

[Okiepan]

Have them in 5 gallon buckets as well as mason jars , Been seed cleaning for the past 2 weeks , Takes about 4 hours to the pound with the hand cleaner.

 

[flowerbug]

I went through the seeds I have yesterday and made a pile/list of those that I NEED to get into the ground this spring, those that I would like, and then those that would be a dream. That seems to have helped with feeling like planning could be more manageable and that I don't need to find "room" for something that my family might not eat/enjoy.

yes, it's very tough to plant things that other's won't even eat. after all that work and the harvest, prep and cooking or whatever. if nobody will eat it all that is wasted...

From here I will draw up my plans, decide if expansion is needed and then I might make a separate plot for "fun/experimenting" if I have the time/space/energy/HELP (that is a huge one here--i am SS on my own a lot)

haha, gardeners always appreciate minions with a good attitude.