Vassar Experimental Garden

It’s March, and we’ve already begun dreamin’ about the crunch of our blue dino kale sauteed with some fresh onions and garlic. Our seedlings are started, and man are they growin’! We’ve already had to trim back our lettuce so much we made a salad out of it. There’s some broccoli, beets, chives, chard, peppers, tomatoes, arugula, basil, lavender, sage, mugwort (and the list continues) already sproutin’ in the greenhouse, too. Although we’re enjoying Spring Break already, we’ve gotta wait until early May, around the time of the last frost in the Hudson Valley, to get these babies rooted in the tasty soil.

Most of the seeds that we are planting this season come from the local Hudson Valley Seed Library– an awesome homestead-based business started in 2004, whose seed sanctuary is located nearby in Accord, New York. For more info, check out their website (http://www.seedlibrary.org/about-us-hvsl) or their blog (http://www.seedlibrary.org/blog/).

So with all these seedlings on our hands, we’re makin’ sure to have our 2014 garden plan and calendar ready. Here’s a cool chart we can use to guide us with a timeline:

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