Peas Please! Please.

Dita! I planted those peas you asked for. I did the crosshatched trellis with sunflower stalks harvested from your crop. Unfortunately I did not get any pea seed from your crop because I improperly dried the pods, but luckily...

Aaron! I planted those peas you gave me. The climbing snap peas from your Territorial crop from 2011. And still have a bunch left for the community center kids.

Please let me have done everything right. Gee.

Biodynamic chart for February

Picked up a few more books for the library and starting reading Gardening for Life the Biodynamic Way by Maria Thun (Hawthorn Press, 1994). Which is based off  Steiner's Eight Lectures (Rudolf Steiner Press, 2005). Just for fun I created a biodynamic chart for my own February gardening. You do chores at the right time too.

Feb 7-8 (Tue/Wed) is Leo Fruit/Seed time, which I take to mean time to do last minute garden chores. Such as turning in the cover crop. Testing the soil. Weed around the wooden perimeter. Clean/santize tools. Pull the hoses back out. Organize tools. That's probably all I'll get to this month. Unfortunately I will be out of town Feb 11-15, which actually makes me realize I should put all that bed prep on hold for one more cycle and just sow later. But I'll see what happens.
I still want to only experiment in biodynamics with the biodynamic seed. Because it seems more authentic. And it could be less work. It could also be more complicated, maintaining charts for some plants and not others. Although once I got into a groove it would probably be fine. February will show what I can take care of.

Planting calendars

I just constructed a rudimentary planting schedule! It's color coded to visually help me focus on specific plants each month. The green is for sowing seed directly into soil, and purple regards transplanting. The time frame is from February-June... Subject to change depending on which seeds I end up getting. Just going through the motions! Gotta keep up the energy. Still need to develop a weekly schedule but I feel like that will fall into place after I purchase seeds. I googled "Planting calendar Seattle" and found some resources. Those are listed here:

Small Wonder Farm

Seattle Times Home & Garden

Oregon Tilth

Almanac - I like this one because it includes "Moon Favorable" dates & I think I will purchase the book

I see there are many plants not accounted for in these online template plant calendars, leaving room for intuition. Also I just found out there is a Horticulture Best Gardening Blogs 2011 book. The kind of people that are in that book have been gardening over 20 years.