It’s been awhile since I wrote a post here, but it has been quite busy around here and I want to share with you what has been going on with my garden plants, plants outside, and indoor ones as well.
So far not all of my plants have been outside, but most of my flowers are enjoying the fresh cool air. Yes it is still a little bit cool which is great for my spinach and onions. (more…)
I have a few things to tell you about that has been happening today. First off my spinach is staying outside longer and longer and by tomorrow they will be outside for the entire day and night. This will be a relief because I can soon look forward to finally plant them in the ground.
On another note I have some more seeds starting to sprout and these were the last two that I thought would take a little bit longer to begin with. Three of my watermelons are showing signs of life and the Queen Anne’s lace has several coming up from the soil. (more…)
Today is the day when I start planting all my tomato seeds indoors and placing them under lights. So far I have planted my leafy plants such as lettuce and spinach. I also have planted some of the more important flowers indoors and now it is time for the first fruit of the season.
This is when the season starts to get a little bit busier with many plants growing inside. Once I plant spinach outside I can then grow some more indoors under the lights that were used on my spinach plants. I will probably be planting some more fruits and vegetables under those lights. (more…)
Today was probably the busiest out of the entire year for gardening. I planted some more flowers that I needed to get completed and I am planting them a little big sooner than last year. It is only a week earlier, but every day helps in getting a good head start.
I decided on growing five different flowers today and they are all going on the windowsill instead of fluorescent light. Most of the flowers I used large plastic pots while only one I decided on planted them in shallow peat pots. (more…)
Now that it is 2016 and the garden season will soon start in another month or so I thought it would be good to buy the seeds I needed for this new year. I have a few new things that I plan on growing this season, but nothing that I can’t handle.
I will be saving some money this year from seeds that I have saved from the previous season. I actually saved some amaranthus seeds that came from both the green and red varieties. As always I saved at least one ear of corn that I left on the stalk to dry and then brought it inside once it was ready. (more…)
It has been a while since my last post, but now that the season is pretty much over there is not much to write about. Luckily I grew a fall crop and my broccoli is starting to come through and I have been harvesting them since the beginning of October.
I also decided that it was time to begin cleaning up the garden. This means removing my pole bean trellis, digging up roots such as my sunflowers, peppers, eggplants, and many others. I will probably rake up the loose debris in the garden as well so that I don’t have to do much when the season starts again next year. (more…)
I thought I would wait to write a post once I had finished weeding my broccoli and had some more harvesting to share. This would include the last cantaloupe, some more peppers, and again more beans. I also took two days to fully weed my broccoli plants.
After a couple of days of rain I knew that my broccoli would do quite well, but on the other hand the weeds would shoot up like crazy. That is exactly what happened and I wanted to make sure that they didn’t affect the growth of my broccoli plants. (more…)
This week was more harvesting of various vegetables including beans, corn, and peppers. For now these will be the main harvesting vegetables that I will be picking over the next couple of weeks until my eggplants are ready.
I have about five eggplants growing on three plants which have been getting bigger each day since about a week ago. My other plants are finally starting to get flowers and I think they will have enough time to start producing eggplants of their own. (more…)
The climax of the season is coming to a head and with the large harvests of corn and tomatoes I think that the season is starting to come to a close. There is always a busy part of the season where I collect the most vegetables and fruit. It looks like the past two weeks are the max I will get from my garden.
This not only includes corn and tomatoes which I collected this week, but with all the melons I picked around the same time, cucumbers, zucchini, and the pumpkins which I will be harvesting very soon. (more…)
Rather than collecting just one or two types of fruits or vegetables I decided on picking everything that looked ripe. This includes zucchini, beans, cucumbers, peppers, cantaloupe, and even cherry tomatoes.
I wasn’t sure if I was going to pick some more corn yesterday, but I decided to wait until this afternoon to pick some more ears. Most of them should be ready by now or at least ripe enough to be considered for consumption. (more…)
