Planting..finally!

The time is FINALLY HERE!!!
I've been hardening my seedlings for over a week. The tilling & prep work for the garden is complete & I've planted some of the seedlings. Yay! I have lettuce, tomato, sweet basil, cabbage, and onion seedlings planted. I have more seedlings to plant still. There are Snow Pea seeds & carrot seeds in the ground as well.
I'll take pics & post them soon.

The Seeds Are In the Pods!

It's that time of year again! Time to start the seedlings indoors. I do have to go buy more pods & seeds though. But so far, Trin & I planted Jalapeno, tomato, red & sweet onion, and bell pepper seeds. Now to water and wait.
This year I'll till the soil & do it all traditionally. The last 2 yrs I've used the lasagna garden method with minimal success. Maybe I'm just a traditional kind of girl! haha
Ok, that all for now.

Um, I believe I forgot to blog...after May of last year.

So anyways. Almost 1 yr later..or less..I shall continue this garden blog.

I know I said I was going to till the rest of the garden but I ended up using the lasagna garden method throughout the entire garden. (I promise to till this spring..ya, we'll see ;) During the summer, we had record rain which was nice because I didn't have to water hardly at all. However, too much rain on pumpkins and corn make for disaster. My 1 pumpkin plant that came up ended up drowning and dying. And the corn only produced minimal ears. Also, I need to find out what corn I grew the first year I gardened. This corn I've been growing the past couple of years is very weird and short. Kinda strange.

Well now we're into winter and gardening is a thing of the past..and future. I did have one lone cabbage plant out there but that has gone away as well. I didn't prepare the ground using the "Lasagna Garden" method last fall. So I'm pretty sure I will HAVE to use someone's tiller this spring which I think will make for hardier veggies anyways. My first year having a garden I did everything very traditional and had the most lush garden. So, I'll try it that way again. I'll just need to put down garden plastic to keep weeds from growing.

Okay, this is it for now especially since no one's thinking about veggie gardens right now anyways! LOL

Veggie plants galor!

Well, I tried to post a video of my garden...which I will just not right now.

My tomato plants are huge. And I realized, after it was too late, that I planted my beafsteak t plant in the wrong place..but oh well. We will all survive. lol

I was given 2 jalapeno plants, 3 hot banana pepper plants, and a yellow squash plant. So that was nice. Now I have 4 jalapeno plants! heehee Salsa WILL be made!

My 3 zucchini plants, my pumpkin vine, and my yellow squash plant all have golden/red marigolds planted next to them. This is to keep, HOPEFULLY, the nasty squash bugs away..or maybe keep them away long enough...those things are NASTY!

I've got corn that's about 1 1/2 feet tall and some more that's just sprouting. I also planted 7 red onions and they're growing great. My romaine lettuce is in abundance and I've got to take some to church and start passing it out. I also have a HUGE cabbage plant, so I need to look into some good cabbage recipes. I've got some garlic growing good and also various onion plants.

Anywho...
I'll try to get pics up here soon. Maybe the video..if it will upload this time.

Love to all my plant lovers!
Katie

Flower Power!

Trin's here posing with my bleeding heart plant (it's a bulb that comes up every spring and surprises me with it's beauty..love it.

This is my porch garden, well it's in front of my porch and I don't know what else to call it. Most of the plants were already there when we moved in. I've added mums (because I need color in the fall too!) and some evergreens (no I don't remember the name of these plants but as soon as I do, I'll let you all know what they are ;)

And this is a pot with some plants in them. I know, descriptive huh? Well, the one with the pink flowers is a strawberry plant of some sort..though you can't eat the strawberries

A closer look and you can see a strawberry at the bottom.

The End..for now

So trashy

Well, it's been a few weeks since I've posted. It's been a busy few weeks and also, my external hard drive has been holding all my pictures hostage. So, I took new pictures...so there!

Here's me hammering the chicken wire onto the board with a nail.

As you can see, I did end up using scrap wood from our wt pile.
And yes, it looks trashy...but serves it's purpose.
SEE! My romaine are now protected!

A try at a Temporary Fix

Ok, I do think of gardening as my drug of choice. But that's not the kind of fix I'm talking about.

As I told you in my last post, the "Runny Babbit"s (this book will make you baugh your lutt off!) have decided to eat my lettuce for me. Well, I decided they didn't need to. So I bought some chicken wire and have yet to actually buy the wood for the completion of the project. If I actually buy the wood (might not cuz I'm cheep and might have to get wood that's sitting in our "wt" pile...though I'm fully aware that wood does not cost much at all) this will be the first year I've had a framed garden. So we'll see.

So this afternoon, while my husband was at a friend's Man Cave watching Wrestlemania (his grandma got him into WWE, formerly WWF, when he was 10 yrs old hehe), I decided to work on my temporary fix for the bunny issue. Here's the tools I used. I did decide to use some scraps of wood TEMPORARILY to weigh down the chicken wire and keep it from blowing away. It will blow away out here! You can use garden staples, which I was going to do and probably should have done. But I got way too excited taking apart a pallet that has been sitting around in my backyard. Maybe if I hadn't wasted my time with that, I would have gotten the project completed before the storm blew in. Oh well.

Ok, back on track. I used chicken wire 2'x50', wire cutters, zip ties, a measuring tape, a marker (which I just realized is not in the picture), hammer and nails (used if you are using wood. If not, add garden staples to this list and delete nails. Keep hammer for staples)


I first measured my garden. Then measured the chicken wire to what I needed. I needed 3 sheets measured 2' x 7 1/2'. This would cover the top and two long sides. The ends will be 2' x 2'. I still have yet to cut all these sheets out. I did however get one long side, the top, and one end cut.

After cutting, I bent the pointy wire ends inward so as not to get poked at when working in the garden..and on this project. Then I lined them up on the ground and began zip tying them together.
This is all she wrote because, as I worked, the wind became more and more fierce and then I noticed the clouds above me were very ugly. And soon, the rain came and I had to scramble and get all my supplies inside and my project under the dismantled pallet.




*sigh* This week is supposed to be a cold one. I'm not looking forward to it. We've had a long winter. Ok, a long winter for Tennesseans. And I'm ready for the weather to be beautiful and for Spring to be here for real...minus tornadoes. Which reminds me, I've got to go check the weather channel. So see you all!