Soiling Blocking Day 2

We didn't have enough time last night to finish our planting, so tonight we will start the rest of our early plants.

With the onions and lettuce we kept debating whether or not to do soil blocks or a flat tray filled with soil. If we did the flat of soil we would need some way to have it drain and water evenly, but if we did the soil blocks we wondered if we were wasting space and could plant more.

So final decision is to try out the soil blocks, we will see how much we like it for these style plants.

Onions/Leeks/Shallot
New York Early
Rossa di Milano
Crystal White Wax Mini- Onion
Prisma Red Shallot
Blue De Solaize Leek
King Sieg Leek

Lettuce/Spinach
Lingua Da Canarino
Crisp Mint Romaine
Blushed Butter Oaks
Buttercrunch Bibb
Arugula (such a funny word to say)
Large Leaf Round Mache
Space Spinach
Tyee Spinach
Giant Winter Spinach
(think we like salads?)

Spices
Sweet Basil
Cinnamon Boys Basil
Thai Basil

We went through all of our mixed soil between the two nights of planting. We have a few weeks before we need to do our next set of plants. Maybe tomorrow I will find some photos of our past years garden for some inspiration with all our grey skies.

Seed Blocking

Here it is February 27, 2013 and we have our soil all mixed up from our secret recipe (it's not really a secret) ready to be stamped into soil blocks. Soil blocks you may ask? It's this great tool that compresses the soil into a 2"x2" block with a little divot for your seed. No more plastic trays having to be replaced every year. No more little roots being ripped when you are ready for planting. Simple, cost effective, and just plain old smarter.

Our set up:
6 shelving metal unit purchased from Home Depot three years ago
10 sets of T8 6500 florescence lights
Awesome soil bock maker
Seeds from Fedco
Timer for the lights






Tomatoes
Pink Brandywine
Aunt Ruby's German
Gardener's Delight
Heinz Paste

Peppers
King of the North Sweeet
Early Jalepeno
Hot Portugal
Bulgarian Carrot Chile

Broccoli
Purple Peacock

Cabbage
Jersey Wakefield
Ruby Perfection

Eggplant
Diamond