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Starting seeds indoors is a crucial step for any aspiring gardener looking to get a head start on the growing season. While it may seem like an extra effort, the benefits far outweigh the initial investment of time and resources. This comprehensive guide aims to walk you through the entire process of starting seeds indoors, from understanding the importance to reaping the rewards of a successful indoor seed-starting venture. By the end of this guide, you'll be equipped with the knowledge and confidence to successfully start your seeds indoors, setting the stage for a bountiful and thriving garden. Let's embark on this green journey together!

How to Start Seeds Indoors

I love that my body naturally craves fruit that is in season. I have been wanting pineapple and I checked and pineapple is in season. Went to the grocery store and found a perfectly ripe pineapple for half off, $1.50 for a whole pineapple! Took it home, cut it up ,and used the rind and core to make tecpache with a Thai pepper tossed in. yum!

Last night my friend took me to a mushroom growing workshop that she got free tickets to. The person leading the workshop asked what our relationship to mushroom is on a scale of 1-10. he said he was an 8, because he knew people who were 10s. Which probably scared all of us and and most people said they were 1s or 2s. I've usually stayed away from fancy mushroom because it seems like another expensive taste I did not need to have. I've stuck more to fermenting (sourdough, sauerkraut, half sour pickles, fermented hot sauces, beer, wine, cider) so this was a fun workshop to learn more how to do it myself.

The guy leading it was very very into mushrooms but not particularly organized and kept having to backtrack to explain things. That's my nightmare of teaching and why I don't. i worry about my organizational skill not meshing with the people I'm teaching and then getting really frustrated, which never actually happens, when I'm teaching informally it goes well whether it is zines or witchcraft or plants or whatever. I just freak out when people want to pay for my disorganized thoughts. Anyway, enough about me.

We pasteurized straw and packed it into buckets with oyster mushroom inoculated grains. Now I have a bucket of fungus I'm waiting to pin and sprout and whatever. He also just brought a bucket of woodchips from his yard with king stropharia (wine cap) mushrooms and just told us to take a bag home and toss in in your garden, don't eat them for more than 2 days in a row, and when you have too many, give them away to people. The wine caps seem more my speed, we'll see how it goes.

I have so many plants I want to put outside! It's still too cold at night and I'm very annoyed about it. the tomatoes in my living room are starting to put out flowers. I think I can hold off for another week.

From the August 1964 issue of Rakam Magazine.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just the body, but the soul.

~ Alfred Austin

Two moods

Sunday afternoon

As the recliner makes a pillow of my empty head (my body in disguise), you skitter from window to window, eyes trained for weeds in the flower beds. If there’s weeding to be done, your aim is to find it. The aim of my body is the game. Any game. There are weeds in every flower bed you sow. There’s a game on every Sunday I know. But the recliner is inclined to weight my body instead, and though the weeds have disappeared from all your flower beds, you haven’t stopped skittering from window to window. by James Keane

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Give your sweet pea seeds a head start by germinating them indoors late January through March to transplant into the garden as soon as soil can be worked.

By doing this, you will be sure that the seeds won’t rot before they sprout under the soil, resulting in a successful plant with beautiful flowers. It also guarantees that you won’t be wasting your time planting some seeds that might not even sprout at all!

Want to read more: How to Grow Sweet Pea

We got the autumn/winter garden in the ground yesterday but still harvesting our summer goodies. Here's tomatoes, potatoes,and dahlias from the garden. Plus cayenne, serrano, jalepeno, and the funnest alias of a name Jimmy Nardello peppers.

Also our snacky dinner last night: tomatoes from the garden, pan roasted padron peppers from the garden, picked beets, pickled cucumbers and green tomatoes from the garden, olives and hummus. Paul made some flat bread that was fluffy and delicious. Not pictures is patatas bravas that didn't look pretty but tasted delicious.

Winter garden consists of broccoli, cabbage, brussel sprouts, and beets from starts and carrots, peas, beans, lettuce, parsnips, radishes from seed. We are going to get garlic starts when they get in. This is the second year we have had a winter garden, but the first year we have been proactive in getting it stared early and I'm really excited about it!