Garden Ready: February To-Do List for A Thriving Garden - Episode 9

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