PLANT YOUR BRASSICA seeds inside now!!! It's a great time to be starting the earliest vegetable family for transplanting outside in April.
The Brassica family includes many of our favorite vegetables:
Georgia South Collard Greens, a few different varieties of kale, broccoli, mammouth red rock cabbage, Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage, long island improved brussels sprouts, calabrese green sprouting broccoli.
2/17/10 Started Russian Red Kale, dwarf blue scotch kale, and calabrese green sprouting Broccoli
2/24/10 Started Red Rock Cabbage, Early Jersey Wakefield Cabbage, Calabrese Green Sprouting Broccoli, Long Island Improved Brussels Sprouts, 25 3-gallon pots full of wet compost/potting mix with gently sprinkled carrot seeds
We're transitioning into an aquaponic-based seed starting system pilot project, but more about that later.
Total- 1,000 potted heirloom brassica seedlings
25 large bunches of carrots
NEXT Couple of WEEKS:
Its supposed to be quite a cold and snowy March according to the Farmer's Almanac it might be really cold and wet all the way through the month of March.
KEEP STARTING INSIDE Beginning of March:
-members of the brassica family, lettuce, some leafy herbs, more carrots
-if you have heat/grow lab systems you can start members of the solanacea family, also known as the Nightshades.