2/26 Seedling starts

i included the ‘time to harvest’ duration listed on the seed packet.  According to information from WSU, you need to add 50% to the time to harvest numbers  for this region due to the lack of summer heat.
I think I’m a week or two late in starting these tomatos.  Last year a stupice came up on it’s own in the garden, from seed dropped the previous year!  It did pretty well, and even set fruit.  The fruit never ripened, but none of the other tomoto plants ripened much fruit, either.

Tomato:

Manitoba(66 days) Determinate

Sun Gold Cherry(65 days) Indeterminate

Matina(75 days) Indeterminate

Gold Nugget(60 days) Determinate

Stupice(60-65 dats) Indeterminate

Tomatilla

Verde(60-68 days)

Cabbage

Derby Day(58 days)

Broccoli

Small Miracle(56 days)

Cauliflower

All-the-year-round(70-90 days)

Leek

Fall Time(80-90 days)

Strawberries

Mignonette

Italian Alpine

Lettuce

Esmerelda(48 days)

Some random seed from a Salad Blend packet

Parsley

Forest Green(80 days)

Basil

Sweet Basil

Lemon Basil(60-70 days)

Initial draft of garden planting schedule

I’m attempting to formulate a generic planting schedule for the Baring microclimate. There’s not much collected data for Baring, so I’m starting out with the Seattle numbers, and hedging a couple weeks towards the conservative side. It’s a good thing too, because we’ve had a run of real nasty cold and snowy weather the past week. Seattle was hit with some cold weather, but not as nasty as up here on the western slopes.

Last Frost: Seattle(3/24) Baring(4/7)
First Frost: Seattle(11/11) Baring(10/25)

General Planting Schedule
LF=last frost

Phase 1 (2/24-3/10 LF-4 to LF-6)

Iffy weather. If it’s a mild year, get an early start on Phase 2. If not, then keep the transplants indoors, and sow seeds cautiously.

Phase 2(3/10-3/24 LF-4 to LF-2)

Seeds to plant: peas, spinach, lettuce
Transplant out: broccolo cabbage, cauliflower, onions, parsley, lettuce

Phase 3( 3/10-4/7 LF to LF-4)
Seeds to plant: beets, carrots, chard, radishes
Transplant out: chard

Phase 4(4/7 to 4/21 LF to LF+2)
Seeds to plant: cucumbers, cantaloupe, winter squash
Transplant out: cucumbers, eggplant, cantaloupe, peppers
This is just a general set of guidelines, to give a quick view of what I should be looking at planting, or starting indoors. A specific planting out schedule needs to be set, then work back to find out when I need to be starting my seeds inside.