Today I'd like to talk about giving yourself a little buffer in the garden, a little grace

for yourself, for your future self, by the always-be-sowing method.

And this is just, it's not a fancy method, I like just coming up with names, but it's

just the idea of practicing seeds starting on a consistent basis throughout the entirety

of your season, pushing it all the way to the limit.

And I'll tell you why I'm talking about this, because when I had my tomato started, my

garden manager, Jacques and I, we both started peppers and tomatoes both of our homes.

I started 36 peppers, 36 tomatoes, and we had a freak frost night.

I'm talking for San Diego very unusual, and all the peppers and tomatoes got hit.

We were well past our last frost, because we don't have one here, and it happened nonetheless.

And what happened?

Well, I actually thought I lost all of them, but it turns out that they've come back

albeit almost three weeks slower than they should have been.

So they're at the point right now that they should have been at almost a month to go

three weeks ago.

And that means that all the tomatoes I've put in the ground are backups.

They're ones that I, I grabbed few from nurseries because I needed to get some in April

for me.

That's the time to get them in.

And the ones that I sowed that I really want to grow this season, those ones I am not

growing.

They're not in the ground yet.

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