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 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…)
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…)
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…)
This is just a short post I wanted to write about the two harvests that I had performed today. It has been a while since I had picked my first steakhouse tomato and my first ear of corn. Now that my corn and tomatoes are starting to ripen I thought it best to start picking them right away.
If I happen to leave corn outside for too long they can get real tough and it would have been a waste of time to grow all this corn in the garden. (more…)
This week was another busy week with planting all 47 broccoli plants I had into the ground. There were actually a few that were cabbage instead of broccoli and those were planted away from my broccoli. This is just not to confuse them with each other because they both sprout the same.
Once the cabbage begins growing its head and broccoli plants start creating a large stalk it will become noticeable which is which. Placing them separately is just an easier way of knowing which is broccoli and which ones are cabbage. (more…)
It has been very busy this week especially with all new harvests of corn and cantaloupes. The cantaloupe was nearly by accident because I wanted to check out the connection between the melon and the vine and when I turned it over it just came right off. Good thing the melon was pretty much ready anyways.
The other cantaloupe that I picked was coming off from the vine so I just decided on removing it since it was going to come done at any moment. No reason to leave it on the vine like that. (more…)
