Last year was perhaps not our best year, but because we started early, we were able to sustain everything through harvest. This winter, I couldn’t find the will to sow seeds in February and March, as I had done the year before. If that makes any sense.
That is not going to happen next year. I’m going to bring in our aging jalapeno plant and some tomato plants. I’m going to start seeds in January or March.
It makes total sense to me. I suffer from that every year. This year, I tried a strategy that more or less worked.
Pick a day - I picked Saturday. Decide that you can start at least 4 5oz Dixie cups with a seed or two of whatever. Keep doing this until the first batch is ready to transplant to 12 or 16 oz styro or other cups. Then repot each week till the first batch is ready to transplant out doors. Take them out doors and transplant the same way. Just few doesn’t take long.
I did it first thing in the AM while the coffee was brewing. Just a few minutes per week. Sometimes after you get started, you plant more than 4. Getting started is the hard part, but by making the task so small - I had no excuse.