It has been a long cold winter in Central Virginia. Usually by now we have colder weather crops planted in our vegetable garden. However, we have had little time to work the soil since it has been snow covered on and off. It has also been too cold for our makeshift greenhouse. Therefore we decided to start our vegetable seeds in peat pellets this year.
We have the pellets in trays sitting right in our dining area bay window. It took just a few days for the zucchini seedlings to emerge! The cucumbers emerged next followed by the tomato seedlings. The herbs and peppers are slower to germinate.
We used Jiffy Peat Pellets which are reasonably priced. Amazon has the small peat pellets for $3.18 for a 36 count. For the tomatoes we used the larger peat pellets which sell for around $4.47 for a 16 count. Since starting your vegetable garden from seed can be a bit tricky, we feel that investing a in a good starter medium really helps with germination.
Have you started your seeds yet?
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I’m impressed with those peat pellets. I’ve never used those but then again I haven’t lived north of Florida but for only 6 mos. in NC. I’ve had a couple gardens & I loved the one in NC the most. I’m certain its because of the soil! Plus it was already started I just put in the sprouted plants & they started to grow. My question is after all that snow do you have to go out & til the area & add any soil prep or what?
Hi Lisa,
Yes after the snow we need to prepare the soil. It needs to be tilled and we will test the soil to see what needs to be added. We just need some nice weather to get out there and get started! It looks like this next week will be in the 70’s so we can get out there!
Renae