Growing a Garden from Scratch

Each spring the Grange Garden takes up the challenge of growing seedlings and transplants for the Grange, other gardens, and the spring FBG Fundraising sale. No small task.

This year is in the good hands of Kim Danner who has acres of experience which includes starting plants for farmlands of produce. Here she is holding baby kale which she tenderly lifts apart from the soil and replants in their own individual pot. Look at those roots -- six inches long on a 1 inch plant!

Kim mass seeds a flat of soil, puts it on a heating mat and under grow lights and then keeps an eye on them lightly watering until they germinate.

Bottom line, if you sow enough seed something will grow. Once sprouted and potted the percentage of having a successful crop goes up dramatically.