You are always an inspiration Ray 
I already should have started seeding but I decided to wait until my hand surgery is done & recovered. Better later than stressed 
Folks, prepare for another year of vegetable shenanigans from me 
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Very nice. What are you planting this year?
Iām excited to one day have a garden!
From running my mother in laws greenhouse and noting successes and failures etc, iām only planning to grow a small yield;
Yellow courgettes for summer BBQs
A few choice tomatoes (cherry and plum)
Chillies
Graffiti aubergine or Romano peppers maybeā¦
Some lettuce for summer : lambs lettuce and rocket
Swiss chard and kale - year round, hardy.
Some small amounts of nice potatoes: Yukon gold ideally, and baby salad potatoes. Maybe a Wilja.
Maybe a small English cucumber 
What are your most successful go tos?
Itās my best daydreaming, imagining my little garden and rescue chicken pen for eggs.
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your plan sounds delicious!
this year I wanna try a full year again, the last years were forced pause on the farm due to divorce and health issues and weather last year.
already seeded are chilli, eggplant, tomatillo and physalis as they need the longest to germinate and sprout.
next are onions, some flowers, kale & co. end of february will follow tomatoes and beetroot, if i get the field ready some turnip. march is for the big tomatoes, ocra and what else comes to my mind. april then I will seed cucumbers, corn, squash and 2nd set of beetroot and cabbage.
i use only heirloom, open pollinating seeds and harvest my own seeds of some varieties.
I hope the weather will be ok this year. last year was crap.
do you make seedlings on your own or do you buy them?
exited to see your veggies 
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Hey. My mother in law has a greenhouse that we clean and manage twice yearly and help to seed and harvest. We also got her a trough thatās waist height as sheās not too mobile anymore so she does beetroot, lettuce and radish and can pick them herself when she wants them.
Tomatoes, I use the whole fruit when I find a nice one and just plant thatā¦ Quite successful. She does strawberries from seed at picking height in hanging baskets. MIL chits her own potatoes and we just put those in any deep bag. Iām certainly no expert as I donāt get to do much apart from when we visit.
I canāt wait to have a garden though. No point putting on the balcony as the cats will just dig it all. I donāt mind having a timeshare with my mother in law though. The last time I cleaned out the greenhouse I found a little field mouse. He was adorable and ran out pronto. Lucky really. We also find slow worms (a lizard thatās very snake like) and false black widows.
Good luck with your endeavours this year. May you be blessed 
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Your MILās glasshouse sounds big 
Mine is waiting to be mounted at the farm. Itās storaged at my townhouse. First I have to build the base. And decide where to put it 
you mean cats like this?
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Yes, little helpers exactly like that! So helpful!
Itās actually not big at all. Her seedlings are usually just all over the bungalow on windowsillsā¦ Itās a bit crazy 
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The storm we had destroyed my greenhouse my poly tunnel in neighbours garden and caused alot of damage , but im sure ill still manage to get my seeds in and my veg life goes on
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Oh Iām sorry to read this Ray. Love the positive note from you ā¦veg life will go in 
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@SoberSassy Gotcha! This is a front garden of my taste. Great meme. Love your seeds 
@Ray_M_C_Laren So sorry to hear about the damage Ray 
Keep them vegs going
@Tragicfarinelli My seedlings too, they occupy every windsill 
First baby veg plants. in this case tomatillo. i need them blooming when they go outside, otherwise no harvest
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Wow simply beautiful. Iām lucky seeds get planted let alone near tidy and organized.
Ok maybe wasnāt a picture of yours but would be great anyway.
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Oh yeah that was just a funny meme I decided to share 
Mine are still seeds in packets 
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Greetings sober gardenersā¦long time no speak!
First seeds planted
If they all growā¦it will be 400 strawberry plants.
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Amazing and so very coolā¦ Thanks for sharing.
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Oooh thatās exciting!!! 
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All the posts in this thread are super impressive and gorgeous. I know nothing about plants. My mother has the green thumb and I never had to take care of the plants in our house so when I moved out I left all the plants for her, meaning, I didnāt take any of them. She can make any plant come back to life, she has a reputation for that. The other day I thought I should try to be more like her so I took a few orange seeds and put them inside a wet tissue inside a plastic bag. A few days went by and LOOK!!!
I just planted it in the soil my mother gave me and Iām really hoping it wonāt die. I want to call it my sobriety orange tree! Iām very excited 
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Oh thatās awesomeā¦look forward to seeing it grow. Very exciting
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Thank you! Letās all hope and pray that sheāll live (is it a she? 
) I really do need to learn about gardening 
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