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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.

More work in the garden today –

Worked on the strawberry bed and expanded it, moving some plants around – hope I didn’t kill them!

Moved over the compost pile so that a new bed was created that I will plant peas and lettuce in. Put up the lattice for the peas.

I left a pile of compost-in-the-works for permanent for this summer.

Raked leaves out from under the shrubs and added to compost pile.

I now have 2 beds ready for planting, and the strawberry bed.

Still have to work on the large bed in the back part of the yard.

Jack wants to go out

Today was sunny and warm (55 degrees high).  Jack kept wanting to spend time outside.  I went out for a little bit with him a couple times this morning, but I told him “I have work to do” and made us come back inside.  He doesn’t do “alone”, he has to have someone with him at all times.

Then I did a little bit of work.

Then I noticed the weather report and that it would be raining the next couple of days, so…I gave in.  We went back outside and I worked on one area of the garden.  We now have one small bed ready for planting.  And one walkway area mulched.

I think this bed will be for lettuce and peas.  Let me check my garden plan I made last month – I am close, I have this bed marked for lettuce, carrots, beets, radishes, onions.  I think the idea was to pick a few, not plant all of those.  I think just lettuce and peas will do, the lettuce kind of takes over and I actually made the bed smaller than I had planned in order to make the walkway which is an addition to the driveway because if we have a vehicle parked there, there is nowhere to walk.

The strawberry bed still has some snow and is quite wet, so I didn’t work on that area, though I would have liked to.  Its going to be even wetter if we get rain for 2 days!

This was in pending posts from 4-28-2009

Look what I found in my garden this morning!