Getting a Jump on the Spring Garden

Planting the first of my early spring seeds indoors

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

Most of the plants that I tend to plant indoors with the intention of planting indoors for an earlier outdoor harvest, I tend to plant too early for instance, planting tomato plants right now would not be a good idea, however, there are plants that I can plant right now.

Here are a few of them that I am planting now in January. However, there are several plants that I can plant early and get a jump on the season by planting 8–12 weeks before planting out. These plants I can also plant outdoors about two weeks before the last frost date.

There’s nothing like getting an early start on seed starting for the garden.

Onions

The first item on my early indoor planting list is onions. We use a lot of onions at our house, so we like to grow a lot of our own. We like to save money too. We could buy onions as plants or sets to plant, and we have done this many times in the past. However, this year, we have chosen to plant my onions as seeds. It’s economical. I get over three hundred seeds for about three dollars or about a penny per seed. It also offers us a way of knowing that the onions that we are growing are the right ones for our garden.