Opened up the mail today to find my Johnny’s seeds had arrived.  It’s my favorite place to order because of their variety, track record, customer service and it’s money back guarantee.  This is a small sample of the items I ordered.  I got so pumped when I got them that I’ve already started some indoors.  It’s going to be zero tonight but the forecast shows things will warm up at night in about a week.  So, I’ve begun-in anticipation of selling some pretty cool things to a small number of customers.  Right now I’m planning on the first delivery of crops by the second week of March.  It takes a little planning but it’s pretty easy to do.  I know how many squares of each item that I need to grow and how long it’ll take to grow them.  I usually add another 7-10 days just to give myself a little leeway.  Some of the things I’m growing right now are very different from what I sell during the regular spring season.  And that little thing in the upper left hand corner?  That’s my PotMaker that I bought from Burpee’s last year.  I no longer have to go out and buy plastic cells and trays to grow.  I use plain old newspaper.  When it’s time for these crops to go into the garden I just place the newspaper cup right in the ground.  It completely decomposes in about 8 weeks.  If you’re anything like me these seed catalogs are like candy-you always bite off more than you can chew.  Well, I probably did buy more than I needed, but with the square foot gardening method, some of these will last me for 6-8 years.  With a SFG you never have to worry about all that heavy thinning-you just plant what you want to harvest.  You need 8 heads of lettuce?  All you need to do is to use 2-1 foot squares.  Each square can grow 4 full heads of lettuce.  You simply put a pinch-2 or 3 seeds-into each hole, cover, water, and sit back.  You’ll have to snip off the extra seedlings that grow with a scissors(1 of only 3 tools that you’ll ever need.)  In six weeks you should have 8 perfectly formed heads of lettuce that have only taken up 2 square feet.  This is a great system.

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