And we're off!

It's the beginning of February, and that means we started planting today! It is a welcome job at this time of year. It may be bitterly cold outside, the city may be closed down due to a blizzard (not this year), but inside our grow room it is warm and bright; the air is moist, and in a couple of days we'll have thousands of lush green plants to look at.

Our first photo is of our grow room -it's in our basement. The plants don't take up too much room right now, so we don't need to use any greenhouses just yet. Everything has been cleaned and sterilized and I'm ready to start planting. Today I mainly planted our geraniums that we grow from seed. We'll be growing over 3,000 of them, and the seed, which is the size of ½ a grain of rice, are planted by hand one at a time. Once that's done (it takes a couple of days), I'll plant some rosemary, salvia, and a few pots of greens that we might get to eat in a month!

In the second photo you can see the geraniums all planted -in 14 weeks we'll have the first blooms and you'll be able to plant them in your garden. I'll do a blog entry about once a week, and you'll be able to see how they're coming along.