urbantomato was featured on Chex Television's My Peterborough!
me and my sunroom greenhouse were featured to show you, you can grow your own food; and seeds!
Showing posts with label seasonal (spring). Show all posts
Showing posts with label seasonal (spring). Show all posts
My little greenhouse - seed starting
 I have recently moved. I lived in the same place for 8 years & had set-up a fairly decent process for growing seedlings indoors using a series of lights & bright windows.  |
| trays just waiting for seedlings |
new place means new set-up. I have resigned myself to the fact that I won't be able to grow nearly as many seedlings this year (sorry folks!)
But of course, I can't resist growing some.
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| little tomato seedlings poking their way through the soil |
So here is so pics of my new set-up. It's mighty cold in my old old window sill so things are taking a little longer than usual, but they seem to be happy enough.
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| brand new seedlings. |
proof that i don't listen to my own advice when it comes to putting one seed in each little container :) and that i get great germination rates.
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| broccoli, kale, romanesco & spinach grew quick in cold temps. |
my mom's garden
visiting family always involves helping out & enjoying my mom's garden. her painting at the entrance to her garden pretty much sums it up!
enjoying a sunset with my mom
Garden coming along
I have the best bosses and friends a lady could ask for. In these pictures, you can see my bosses working to help me get my garden planted before I had to leave town suddenly for personal reasons. Starting to look like a garden & not just a phlox patch!
super exciting great news!
In an incredible and amazing stroke of luck, I just got offered the use of this wonderful space to grow in this season. i have always been blessed by offerings of great land to grow on, but they are always outside of the city. And for this full-time working, non-driving girl, that prospect was really starting to stress me out for this upcoming season (I had a great place at a farm last year that I was planning on returning to, but had a hard time getting out there to even start) ..... Then, someone offered my an urban location just blocks from my home with a very accessible water source (a tap!), a cold frame, and a huge amount of space to grow ... couldn't be more grateful or excited!!
super beautiful flowers lining the entrance!
when i first arrived to start weeding! .... and just a few hours later! weeding happened much easier and faster than I could have imagined. just another great sign that it is going to be a great season at this new spot!
home greenhouse
this year for the first time I used my own home as my greenhouse. some experimenting was done, but it worked out pretty well. my front sunroom worked perfectly as a greenhouse!
also used my front porch as a transplanting station once it got warmer out.
luckily i have lots of space & i don't mind sharing it with hundreds of ever-growing plant babies! here they are getting ready to head off to market as little guys!
more saturday market booth shots
booth all set-up & ready to go in the lovely early morning sun
plants are selling quickly!
one little allegory sunset plant left!
Saturday Market booth
Pics from my first day back at the Peterborough Saturday Market and what a wonderful market it is!! Happy to be back. You can find me there for the next three weeks, or email me if you need some tomato seedlings.
lovely slicing tomatoes enjoying a sunny day outside of the greenhouse
buttons, magnets, seeds & seed saving booklets
Cherry tomatoes
Preparing for Saturday Market
Here's the first batch of seedlings getting ready to leave the nest & head to my customers home's & gardens.
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