Seeds ordered! Check.

January 5th, 2010
Four Frog Farm | Blog

Triumph.

We hit our first milestone of the year today.  All of the seeds for 2009 are ordered, paid for, done.  Check that off the list.

We order from Peaceful Valley (of course), and also from a handful of other companies.

The grand total was…a lot…let’s not talk about that now.

While planning for seeds, Logan and I made a detailed planting schedule to figure out the quantities we will need.  The last step in this chain is to place all of these successions on field maps - once that happens, we’ll be unstoppable!!!

That’s a far cry from last year, already.  Of course, we had a rough estimate of how much of what we would plant, but that changed a lot at planting time.  It was totally arbitrary because we didn’t know how much each of our markets would buy.  This year, we have a good idea how much of what we can sell in any given place (plus, we plan a tad optimistically).

It took a full 6 days of geeking out on the computers, side by side, to make the planting calendars and decide what, how much, and when we are going to grow everything (like I said, we only need to figure out WHERE it all goes now).

Choose your seeds carefully,

Andrew

2 Responses to “Seeds ordered! Check.”

Bill McDorman Says:
Jan 6th, 2010 at 5:52 am

This fall, make this your goal and be a real gardener helping us all to preserve our threatened genetic heritage.  “All seeds saved from our own plants that did best in our own garden.”  Check.

You can find detailed seed saving information on the website of this 20 year-old non-profit:  http://www.seedsave.org/issi/issi_904.html

Janna Says:
Jan 31st, 2010 at 12:34 pm

Hey there, just found your blog when we were spending an hour doing the same planning of our backyard garden.  I think you mean 2010 in your first sentence.

Looking forward to following your progress from afar!!

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