In this episode, Shannon Foster-Boline and Caitlyn Blum hosts of Fostering Blooms, discuss their comprehensive February gardening to-do list, ensuring you're garden ready with them. They emphasize the importance of ordering seed potatoes from a trusted supplier like Wood Prairie Farm, and introduce the concept of 'chitting'.
The conversation includes tips on sowing a variety of vegetables both indoors and directly into the garden, with insights on soil preparation, composting, and the benefits of using family-run businesses for quality, organic seeds.
Caitlyn & Shannon also share personal experiments with succession planting and soil amendments, ending with a lighthearted discussion on composting with 'pluffy' manure.
00:00 Introduction and February To-Do List
00:10 Getting Garden Ready: Seed Potatoes
05:13 Sowing Seeds Indoors
08:02 Direct Sowing in the Garden
11:52 Transplanting and Hardening Off Seedlings
15:41 Composting and Weeding
18:37 Conclusion and Final Tips