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I pretty much have an ugly garden.  I used to feel bad about it sometimes and go around madly trying to “clean” it up.  But after reading about some other ugly gardens, I have decided not to fight it.

There aren’t a lot of pictures on this site of my garden because my camera situation is almost non-existent.  Plus I was always trying to clean it up before I take a picture.  But you can look around, there are a few from previous years, and you will see, they are pretty ugly.  This year, the garden is occupying nearly the entire back yard, and it ain’t any prettier!  oh well.

I have been lax on updating my garden notes.  The book my Mom gave me and this blog.  Too busy is my excuse.

The peas and strawberries are flowering.   The lettuce and spinach are being eaten.  The tomato plants are mostly in the ground.  I put in some cucumber seedlings this morning and in the next couple of days the squashes should be ready to plant (my goodness they grow fast!).  The potatoes are growing like crazy and the beans are coming along.  The broccoli tends to wilt a lot.  I think the weather  may have turned too hot for it, I should try and figure out a shade arrangement for it.

I need to build some more tomato trellises before the plants get very big.

My new phone will not send email photos.  I don’t know how to fix that, I will have to ask Caitlin.

Lettuce, spinach and peas are finally starting to come up outside.  A few sweet peas sprouting.  The broccoli is coming along.

Very nice weather for a few days and I am stuck inside trying to figure out a website problem!  Why aren’t these support people helping me??  Maybe they are outside!  I need to plant the raspberry bushes.

Sugar Sweetie Cherry Tomato from Botanical Interests

The tomato seedlings are coming along well.  I transferred them to larger pots today.  I have 5 cherry tomatoes, and 8 Livingston.  The Beefsteak are not as big and I don’t have room for larger pots,  so I didn’t transfer them yet.  I need to put up another light shelf.  I will want to start some peppers soon.   I have 3 broccoli seeds that sprouted.

The peas I planted outside are not up yet, it has been too cold I  think.  I saw a few that had floated to the top of the dirt the other day so I pushed them back down.  The lettuce and spinach are not doing anything either, I have put up a plastic tunnel on them.  Before I got the sides situated Boo was already going in the tunnel, he thought it would be a good place to lay.

The sweet peas I winter sowed in a milk carton sprouted, just a few.  The lemon balm and milkweed – nothing.  The potatoes, nothing either.

I have started some lettuce and spinach inside and when they sprout I hope to put them outside in a plastic tunnel.  Or a coldframe if I can put one together with whatever is in the garage.

Never did get a camera situation, gotta work on that.

Snap Peas from Botanical Interests

Planted snap peas from Botanical Gardens,  (last years seeds) and shelling peas (from Freedom Seeds, ordered last year) on Saturday.  Covered them with milk carton greenhouses because it is going to be frosty the next few nights.  Also, I believe last year the birds and/or squirrels ate a lot of my pea seeds!  I pre-sprouted all the pea seeds since they are from last year and they all sprouted.

I covered the strawberry plants with a sheet the last few nights, and covered the lettuce and spinach seeds with plastic.

Hope I haven’t started planting things too early!

Inside Seeds:

Tomato seeds have sprouted.  I see one broccoli sprouted, maybe more.  A couple of sweet peas sprouted.

The garlic and onions look a little frosted, maybe I should have covered them up with something.

Today I planted the red and white potatoes from organic potatoes that had sprouted,  and spinach and lettuce from freedomseeds.org.

I planted my garlic shoots and moved some onions that were left from last year.

Worked on the large garden area.

Carol at May Dreams Gardens says to plant peas, spinach and sweet peas on St. Patrick’s Day (tomorrow).  Next week plant lettuce.  On March 30, lant root crops like radishes and onions – the moon will be right.  Should I plant my garlic and potatoes then too?  The garlic shoots are growing but I don’t know about the potatoes, I may have waited too long.

The rest of the week should be very nice weather for garden work.

Seeds started indoors:

• 12 Livingston’s Beauty tomatoes
• 8 Beefsteak tomatoes
• 6 Sugar Sweetie cherry tomatoes

Experiment – I had some garlic that had sprouted, so I separated the sprouted cloves and planted each in a pot of dirt. It has been raining for the last 2 days or I would have planted them outside.

I also have some sprouted potatoes to plant when  I decide where.

Made a garden pathway.

Winter sown seeds:

• morning glory
• milkweed
• sweet peas

I had these morning glories seeds from last years plants.  They are mixed with the volunteer morning glories that came up by the side of the porch.  I would like to get a good amount growing there this year.