Garden update

Well I thought it would be a good idea to do a garden update.
My Kale, Peas, carrots and onions are peaking through the soil. I have transplanted into larger pots my cabbage, broccoli,lettuce, strawberries. My tomato plants have sprouted under the lights in the basement. Spinach is starting to sprout.

Michael bought me two flats of pansies for my birthday and I was able to plant some of them in my big cement planters today. I finished clearing out the front flower bed and really enjoyed smelling the hyacinths as I worked. The daffadils are also blooming and the tulips are beginning to bud. I have enough pansies to do the two deck planters and make the three Easter basket planters for the shepherd's hooks in front of the house.

I love Spring!!!

Tuesday planting

Today I planted 9 Yukon Gold potatos and 18 red potatos. I also put in all my red onion starts (about 50) Plus I tested all my soil in my raised beds so I can adjust the Ph or the nutrients in each bed, depending on what I plan to plant in them.
I cleared out two flower beds, getting all the old dead stuff trimmed down. I also worked on my herb bed. We are going to get rain tonight, so I didn't water anything.

Seed update

Okay - here's what I planted over the weekend outside:
More carrots, spinach, kale, swiss chard, beets, lettuce in my cold frame
Inside I've started tomatos (early girls, cherry, brandywine & roma)
3 more kinds of peppers (jalapeno, hungarian & banana)
My potatos are ready to be planted tomorrow (red & yukon gold)
It's going to be beautiful here tomorrow so I hope my mouth will settle down and I can be outside all day (I had a post put in today with a crown and right now it's hurting) But my garden will be the best remedy! I really need to get some flowers started.
Oh and the daffadils are blooming....my mom is coming to visit in a few weeks - I hope the bulbs will still be blooming. Here's a picture of the daffs - don't they just make you smile?

Gardening and Basketball

My favorite time of year! The NCAA tournament and springtime, not to mention that March is my birthday month and the birthday month for many of my friends. How can you not LOVE March!

Okay, I have been terrible at posting! But I'm still trying. It'll get even harder now with the garden. But I'll at least try to post up what I'm planting.

On St Pat's day it was 72 degrees! We (John and I) got the pea trellis up and I planted 150 pea seeds - 3 varieties Misty, a snow pea and a few experimental variety the seed store gave me.

In the basement under the lights I have up and with their true leaves out, red & green cabbage, broccoli and buttercruch lettuce. Also a flat of celery and bell peppers up with just their first set of leaves. Today I am starting more and will update tomorrow what I actually got done. It's questionable because the games start today....but I can listen on my radio, while I work.

That's it for today - Happy, Happy Spring tomorrow to all of us! Hurray, winter is over! My crocuses are blooming, daffs & tulips up and getting ready and the hyanciths are peeking up.