Today has been a fabulous weather day. I didn't have to go to work until 10 this morning, so I was able to get into the garden and get some stuff planted. I also got to get back into the garden for a little while after work. My garden is my relaxation, my oasis, my piece of mind. It makes a bad day better and makes my heart smile. I am in a good mood now. Some days I would like to hide in my garden and let the world happen around me, oblivious to anything but what is growing. How peaceful that would be..... Back to reality!!!
My list of things that got planted today:
Green and Wax Beans
Ice Berg Lettuce
Cilantro
Spinach
Onion seeds (for green onions and for my sets for 2012)
Carrots (added to what I already planted)
I was getting a bit silly when planting my spinach and cilantro. I decided to do a patch work planting. We'll see how it looks. I also discovered 3 very small leaf lettuce plants coming up where I had cilantro planted last year. Some how they self seeded from the other side of the cilantro last year. It was a pleasant surprise. Maybe next week I'll be able to get some of the pumpkins et al. planted outside. I am going to baby my peppers in the house for a good few weeks yet. Now I am just waiting to see new baby green peaking up from the soil.
Our humming bird friends came back today, so I dusted off my feeders and filled them up. I have 2 feeders again this year just in case my 2 very territorial males are back. Man did they fight last year. For such tiny little birds, they can put up a rather large fuss and make a ton of noise.
We are due for some good storms tonight, so I am looking forward to hearing the thunder roll. Here is to a nice night of rain to water all of my newly planted seeds. Happy growing little ones.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Saturday, March 19, 2011
Seeds Have Arrived!
My sister came down this weekend for my son's 5th Birthday party and brought my seeds with her. We split a lot of the seed packets because some just have more than we need. I know we could save them for another year on a lot of them, but this just works better for us. So after our dividing the ones that we are sharing and her keeping some of the ones that she will start for both of us (because she has the small green house and ours isn't built yet) we are ready for spring.
My list of seeds include:
Peas: RSVPea for shelling and Sugar Snaps
Beans: Burpee's Tenderpod and Gold Mine
Pumpkins: Dill's Monster,SuperFreak Goosebumps Hybrid, and Snack face Hybrid
Squash: Waltham Butternut Heirloom & Buttercup
Gourds: Gremlins and Goblin Egg
Carrots: Atomic Red, Bambino, Cosmic Purple, Lunar White & Solar Yellow
Sweet Zuke Hybrid Zucchini
Baby Leaf Hybrid Spinach
Sweet Basil
Lettuce: Iceberg A & a leaf
Early Pride Hybrid Cucumber
Dimitri Hybrid Brussels Sprouts
Peppers: False Alarm, California Wonder, Sunbright, Horizon, Purple Beauty, Midnight Dreams, Chocolate Bell, White Belle and Lilac Bell
Dukat Dill
Granex Yellow Onions (grown from seed for green onions and sets for 2012)
Tomatoes: Brandy Boy, Roma & a Cherry
Cilantro
I think that is it. Looks pretty daunting, but I am excited. I may add a thing or two as the time get's closer. I am also getting seed potatoes and onion sets, but they are on back order. We have this huge beautiful south facing deck that doesn't get much use, so I will be doing a bunch of container plantings up there with the leaf lettuce, herbs, some tomatoes and maybe I'll add some pole beans as my others that will go in the garden are bush varieties.
Friday, Scott and Adin went and got our glass for the green house. We got 10 panels of replacement patio door glass for $15 each. Should work great. The layout of the green house is once again changing in Scott's mind. He is now thinking of having it longer and narrower, which is fine with me. He has a picture in his head and it should work. He is pretty meticulous when it comes to building so I'm sure it will be beautiful. He even textured the concrete that he put down last fall for our split wood to sit on. He is wonderful.
Today is beautiful, but tomorrow is supposed to rain. At least we should loose a lot of snow this weekend. This afternoon I was actually able to get into the garden and dig up some carrots that have been overwintering in there. I was amazed. Other than being really dirty, they were still crisp and crunchy and not frozen. I love it. It is fun to be harvesting again.
My list of seeds include:
Peas: RSVPea for shelling and Sugar Snaps
Beans: Burpee's Tenderpod and Gold Mine
Pumpkins: Dill's Monster,SuperFreak Goosebumps Hybrid, and Snack face Hybrid
Squash: Waltham Butternut Heirloom & Buttercup
Gourds: Gremlins and Goblin Egg
Carrots: Atomic Red, Bambino, Cosmic Purple, Lunar White & Solar Yellow
Sweet Zuke Hybrid Zucchini
Baby Leaf Hybrid Spinach
Sweet Basil
Lettuce: Iceberg A & a leaf
Early Pride Hybrid Cucumber
Dimitri Hybrid Brussels Sprouts
Peppers: False Alarm, California Wonder, Sunbright, Horizon, Purple Beauty, Midnight Dreams, Chocolate Bell, White Belle and Lilac Bell
Dukat Dill
Granex Yellow Onions (grown from seed for green onions and sets for 2012)
Tomatoes: Brandy Boy, Roma & a Cherry
Cilantro
I think that is it. Looks pretty daunting, but I am excited. I may add a thing or two as the time get's closer. I am also getting seed potatoes and onion sets, but they are on back order. We have this huge beautiful south facing deck that doesn't get much use, so I will be doing a bunch of container plantings up there with the leaf lettuce, herbs, some tomatoes and maybe I'll add some pole beans as my others that will go in the garden are bush varieties.
Friday, Scott and Adin went and got our glass for the green house. We got 10 panels of replacement patio door glass for $15 each. Should work great. The layout of the green house is once again changing in Scott's mind. He is now thinking of having it longer and narrower, which is fine with me. He has a picture in his head and it should work. He is pretty meticulous when it comes to building so I'm sure it will be beautiful. He even textured the concrete that he put down last fall for our split wood to sit on. He is wonderful.
Today is beautiful, but tomorrow is supposed to rain. At least we should loose a lot of snow this weekend. This afternoon I was actually able to get into the garden and dig up some carrots that have been overwintering in there. I was amazed. Other than being really dirty, they were still crisp and crunchy and not frozen. I love it. It is fun to be harvesting again.
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