{"id":2484,"date":"2020-02-22T14:09:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T19:09:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/?p=2484"},"modified":"2020-02-22T14:09:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T19:09:19","slug":"looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking Towards a Fresh Spring Start"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><p>This year I hope to be an interesting one with a few new plants that I am going to try out for the first time.  I plan on having a larger than normal spring crop with plenty of plants including spinach, eight different types of lettuce, potatoes, peas, radishes, and maybe even some broccoli and many more.  I haven\u2019t planned it all out yet, but I am hoping to get all of these plants into the garden as soon as spring comes around and temps begin to rise.<\/p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As usual my flowers that are used to attract bees, insects, and other organisms were planted a couple of weeks ago indoors under lights and in windowsills.  I have started placing dill, wildflowers, and alyssum into containers at this point.  I will try to get more flowers planted indoors once the weather gets warmer and can start placing them outdoors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4960-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Flower seeds planted indoors and beginning to sprout.\" class=\"wp-image-2485\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4960-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4960-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4960-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4960-700x467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I also wanted to get some spring crops ready for when it is time to start transplanting into the ground as early as possible.  So far I have planted Bloomsdale long standing spinach, buttercrunch, white Paris, burgundy delight (red), black seeded Simpson, dynamite, king crimson (red), igloo, and Vivian lettuce seeds.  I started them out in the cool basement and using fluorescent lights to get them started for now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4957-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Spinach and lettuce seeds planted.\" class=\"wp-image-2486\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4957-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4957-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4957-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4957-700x467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I mentioned in the beginning that I have some new seeds that I am going to be trying out this season.  I bought some Carolina reaper and habanero peppers for the garden season.  I thought it would be good to try out some of the hottest peppers to grow in the garden this year.  I wanted to try them out last year, but didn\u2019t have the chance and promised myself that I would grow them during 2020.  This is a great way to start off a new decade of gardening.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year I hope to be an interesting one with a few new plants that I am going to try out for the first time. I plan on having a larger than normal spring crop with plenty of plants including spinach, eight different types of lettuce, potatoes, peas, radishes, and &#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[452,249,28,12],"tags":[250,334,244,6,413],"class_list":["post-2484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2020-season","category-lettuce","category-planting-indoors","category-spinach-2","tag-lettuce","tag-planting-indoors","tag-seeds","tag-spinach","tag-spring","column","twocol","has-thumbnail"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Looking Towards a Fresh Spring Start - Eric&#039;s Organic Gardening Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Looking Towards a Fresh Spring Start - Eric&#039;s Organic Gardening Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"This year I hope to be an interesting one with a few new plants that I am going to try out for &#8230;\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Eric&#039;s Organic Gardening Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-02-22T19:09:16+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2020-02-22T19:09:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4957-1024x683.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Eric Fernandes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Eric Fernandes\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Eric Fernandes\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/0f019dc2eacabe32de9faf8378d3ebe3\"},\"headline\":\"Looking Towards a Fresh Spring Start\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-22T19:09:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-02-22T19:09:19+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/\"},\"wordCount\":314,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4957.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"lettuce\",\"planting indoors\",\"seeds\",\"spinach\",\"spring\"],\"articleSection\":[\"2020 Season\",\"Lettuce\",\"Planting Indoors\",\"Spinach\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/\",\"name\":\"Looking Towards a Fresh Spring Start - Eric&#039;s Organic Gardening Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4957.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-02-22T19:09:16+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2020-02-22T19:09:19+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/0f019dc2eacabe32de9faf8378d3ebe3\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4957.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4957.jpg\",\"width\":5184,\"height\":3456,\"caption\":\"indoor spring seeds planted\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Looking Towards a Fresh Spring Start\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Eric&#039;s Organic Gardening Blog\",\"description\":\"follow me through my organic gardening journey\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/0f019dc2eacabe32de9faf8378d3ebe3\",\"name\":\"Eric Fernandes\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/11b17a746d51bb74908444d29f49d7a8a08b4315bdb516af2d9eccecda424f0b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/11b17a746d51bb74908444d29f49d7a8a08b4315bdb516af2d9eccecda424f0b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/11b17a746d51bb74908444d29f49d7a8a08b4315bdb516af2d9eccecda424f0b?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Eric Fernandes\"},\"description\":\"Eric Fernandes is an organic gardener and has been gardening for over 23 years. He created this blog to share his experiences and knowledge with other aspiring gardeners. You can read his entire bio here.\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/author\/ericthered789\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Looking Towards a Fresh Spring Start - Eric&#039;s Organic Gardening Blog","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Looking Towards a Fresh Spring Start - Eric&#039;s Organic Gardening Blog","og_description":"This year I hope to be an interesting one with a few new plants that I am going to try out for &#8230;","og_url":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/","og_site_name":"Eric&#039;s Organic Gardening Blog","article_published_time":"2020-02-22T19:09:16+00:00","article_modified_time":"2020-02-22T19:09:19+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":683,"url":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4957-1024x683.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Eric Fernandes","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Eric Fernandes","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/"},"author":{"name":"Eric Fernandes","@id":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/0f019dc2eacabe32de9faf8378d3ebe3"},"headline":"Looking Towards a Fresh Spring Start","datePublished":"2020-02-22T19:09:16+00:00","dateModified":"2020-02-22T19:09:19+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/"},"wordCount":314,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4957.jpg","keywords":["lettuce","planting indoors","seeds","spinach","spring"],"articleSection":["2020 Season","Lettuce","Planting Indoors","Spinach"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/","url":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/","name":"Looking Towards a Fresh Spring Start - Eric&#039;s Organic Gardening Blog","isPartOf":{"@id":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4957.jpg","datePublished":"2020-02-22T19:09:16+00:00","dateModified":"2020-02-22T19:09:19+00:00","author":{"@id":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/0f019dc2eacabe32de9faf8378d3ebe3"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4957.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/IMG_4957.jpg","width":5184,"height":3456,"caption":"indoor spring seeds planted"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/looking-towards-a-fresh-spring-start\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Looking Towards a Fresh Spring Start"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/#website","url":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/","name":"Eric&#039;s Organic Gardening Blog","description":"follow me through my organic gardening journey","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/0f019dc2eacabe32de9faf8378d3ebe3","name":"Eric Fernandes","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/11b17a746d51bb74908444d29f49d7a8a08b4315bdb516af2d9eccecda424f0b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/11b17a746d51bb74908444d29f49d7a8a08b4315bdb516af2d9eccecda424f0b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/11b17a746d51bb74908444d29f49d7a8a08b4315bdb516af2d9eccecda424f0b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Eric Fernandes"},"description":"Eric Fernandes is an organic gardener and has been gardening for over 23 years. He created this blog to share his experiences and knowledge with other aspiring gardeners. You can read his entire bio here.","url":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/author\/ericthered789\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2484"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2487,"href":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2484\/revisions\/2487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ericsorganicgarden.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}