hey everyone it's spring time here in Quebec and it's time to start seeding in the fields in the
caterpillar tunnels and I'm going to be showing you what I've seeded in my Greenhouse check it out
okay so first things first this is one of my favorite strategy to really warm up the soil
in the spring I put clear plastic in the winter and so what happens here is
that I have soil that is warming up and it's not just warming up it's also dry
so we see the soil is super warm already
snow just melted so that's really a smart way to start the season warming up the soil
when it's cold outside once it's warm boom I can seed it and then I'll put a row cover
having the raised beds really makes a big difference at this time of the year that's
a major aspect of spring planting and then you have these caterpillar tunnels they're Gothic
so you know they shed the snow all winter long and here what I have is black plastic
and so I've destroyed everything that was there in the fall and I also have warm soil
that I'll be able to plant in what I'll usually do is I'll direct seed outside
and I'll transplant inside the caterpillar tunnels because you know I'll have a layer
I'll put another layer with a row cover and then that's going to be enough to keep young seedlings
going but for direct seeding the seeds they just get acclimated so much faster so directs eating
peas radishes different kind of hakurai turnips different uh mustard greens they'll grow just as
fine caterpillar or not the very first frog that I'll be planting here will be probably lettuces
um and beets so I transplant my beets because I have a really good head start and then I can
have perfect density once they're in the ground so lettuce beets which I'm trying to seed every other
week so that I have a constant Supply fresh beets fresh lettuce heads for the restaurants here and
for other restaurant that I'm working with the varieties of beets that I'm going to be putting
here uh they're starting the nursery Buddha is a really cool one it's a new cultivar that I'm
trying from France otherwise chioga is a classic I like it in the spring and for the lettuce I'm also
going with which is a really really really dense really uh red and it's also one that can take some
some Frost some light frost so that's you know we never know the temperature can change so these are
my favorite cultivars for here so spring for me is like really exciting because the warm the warm air
comes out but the soil also and it's just like okay it's on baby it's on just get it going and
then the beauty of not having a tractor is that we can go in the fields even when it's wet because
the beds are permanent because the beds are raised you know a light machine or a wheel hoe you know
can gently prepare the soils I'll just brought Fork you know I'm about six to seven weeks before
all the other uh Growers that are mechanized and that's an edge that I have as a market Gardener
because I'll be the first one at Market with all these fresh veggies and first of the market
is King for sure all right so come on in I'll show you a sneak peek of what's growing in my
Greenhouse again you know this this project is to feed the kitchen and this was seated I think the
second week of January so this is a really really early crops so now what we have here these are
some of my favorite spinach uh tightly seeded this is Astro this is a it's a really good come and cut
again uh variety it's from Johnny's I think but you can get it from other people but Astro is
really good in the winter it grows really well and has a really nice Lush really good green so
that's the reason why I'm growing this one these are my all-time favorite you know French breakfast
the original small radish these are really fancy really nice I've always grown French breakfast
and I and I think they're the best especially really early in the spring people get excited
about them they're nice the trick with them is to make sure that you're all offsetting the
seedling so that you get successions and that you don't get a bumper Harvest all at once you
want to make sure that you're planting every second week and then boom you get succession
planting that ways French breakfast really nice variety like it a lot if we move inward here
this is something that I haven't done in a while this is a mix of just salads this is so this is
a winter salad that can take really some Frost and it did get some Frost and it's still looking
super good have a little bit of a weed issue I haven't gone in yet but that's going to happen
this week but these salads are really nice we seeded them with the six row seaters from
Johnny's it's going to become really thick and I really need to get the weeds out of this bed for
this week that's for sure so moving on this is tatsoi it's a really classic Asian green
and I'm getting because this is the first time I'm growing here you can see that there's not
great uniformity on the growth here and that's giving me the signal that I need to work more
my beds level them better they had they're not perfectly level and you see what what impact
that it that it has and perhaps a bit more compost because that's not to my liking but you know this
it is this is and what's great about totsoil is that it gets really thick and really heavy
and when you're selling things by weight that goes a long way so tatsoi really cool for that
mustards uh Ruby streak another variety that I like what's great
about Ruby streak is that obviously it's purple and it's it really looks good uh
and the salad mix it's also great at whatever size this is the one common cut again green
that can really grow tall I'll just cut the tops and I'll always have a nice size green
so that's that's kind of my backbone cultivar so that I can have you know even if it's overgrown
it's going to be good enough for second the third fifth cut so Ruby streak really like it
then there's arugula classic arugula is always a favorite you can see it here
I'm not getting the perfect density that I'm used to so that means I have some work to do with my
bed spacing you know it's the first time planting here so I'm discovering a lot of the a lot of
what was going on the soil is actually telling me that there's some spots that aren't optimal
now in another video I might go over some of the solutions that I found for that carrots
good germination rates five rows on 30 inch
uh it's pretty good spacing for early carrots they have a lot of sun to really pop up these
are going to be really early and they're really nice Sorel was there transplanted last
uh it was transplanted in November so that's a really a Workhorse really Hardy took some beating
big frosts still up this is the last week that we have it I'm gonna cut it off cut it all out
and then we're gonna use it in the kitchen to do some vinegar so that's that's that then I have my
sweet peas that are in the ground they're coming up and then the rest is a mix and match of more
radishes more uh uh arugula some salads so it's from there on it's just about having succession
planting and having different strategies to make sure that I have a constant supply of the 10 to 15
veggies that I need to really pump out volumes so friends this is it for this week's video I
hope you enjoyed it imagine that fast forward I'm in a different climate now I'm hanging out
in Italy for the week and I have my new buddy here check him out really cool guy and I'll
have some amazing stories to share in the weeks to come but till then I'm giving a free workshop
on successful seed starting there's probably a few tricks for Growers to learn so if you're
interested check it out all the informations on the link below you can pass the information along
until then I hope you are all well I'm having a great time here in Italy it's amazing it's a
short trip but I'm learning a ton and I'll be excited to share a few things so arrivederci