It may feel early, but if you haven’t started yet, it is time to wrap up your plant research, review last year’s garden logs, commit to some tried and true varieties, and maybe a couple of new ones, buy seeds, and finish planning your 2025 garden. We will start cold hardy plants from seed indoors in the next couple of weeks, and the planting season for cold hardy crops inside low tunnels will be here in no time. While we are months away from any direct sowing in our zone 4 climate, we have ensured that we have the necessary amount of seed to grow the volumes we are planning and can start as early as possible.
This year we are growing fields of beans, oats, barley, and 3 potato varieties, while the 3 thousand square foot kitchen garden will have a half dozen tomato varieties, a wide range of herbs, and everything from beets and kale to okra and jalapenos, totaling around forty varieties of vegetables and herbs.
We rehydrate a lot of vegetables in winter, but its also nice to have fresh greens, so we grow fresh microgreens, herbs, and sprout mixes all winter and alongside our seed starting for spring. If you want fresh greens and can’t wait until spring, or need seed-starting supplies, take a look at these microgreen trays and these seed starting trays. We use them year after year for seed starting and sprouting because they are super durable. While they are a bit more expensive upfront, they pay for themselves after a couple of seasons of skipping out on buying cheap, flimsy, trash for nearly as much.
We aren’t the only ones that enjoy our greens, and we grow fodder for our happy chicken flock in winter using these durable, USA made, planter boxes.