First steps towards a Summer Garden

Thanks to my friend Melodie for supporting my gardening habit and setting me up with tonnes of great organic seeds for my summer vegetable garden! Tom and I got things started a few nights ago by planting seeds that will hopefully flourish in time to be repotted outside in May after the last frost. We found this great Jiffy Windowsill Greenhouse that holds 24 peat pellets.

Just add water, place a few seeds in each pellet, cover with lid, place in indirect light, and in 4 weeks you have a plant ready for the outside! We made a plan map of the box to keep track of which plant is which vegetable. Hopefully by June or July, we will be harvesting:

Little Finger Carrots

Rainbow Chard

Dward Grey Sugar Pea

Bounty Edamame Soy Beans

Vienna White Cabbage

Romanesco Broccoli

Iroquois Cantaloupe

Trionfo Violetto Pole Bean

Aunt Molly's Ground Cherry

Watermelon Radish

Garden Peach Tomato

Yellow Pear Tomato

Brandywine tomato

Sugar Baby Watermelon

Carosello Cucumber

Gourmet Shallot

Green Chives

Mesclun Mix Greens

I am also going to plant Lily of the Valley Bulbs (my favourite flower in the whole world due to its nighttime aroma) and some wild grasses and lavender in large pots on the balcony for some aroma, greenery and shade. 

Happy Gardening!