It feels more and more like spring with all the warm weather that should be arriving this entire week. Since all this warm weather is coming I thought today would be perfect to add all my strawberries into the garden. (more…)
Sunny skies and warm weather means it is time to start planting onions and some other cold weather plants including lettuce. Although it is the beginning of April there still might be some cold days ahead. All that is needed is some row covers to protect your plants from a late frost. (more…)
Today was the first day of harvesting lettuce and only my iceberg lettuce for now. I will most likely start picking my Ruby glow hybrid in another week or so. I will have to pick them before they begin to go to seed.
I also planted some flowers in the garden this past week. I had some flowers that I had not planted in the garden and since they were beginning to outgrow their containers I needed to place them in various places throughout the garden. (more…)
The past three days have been quite busy with my plants ready for the ground and seeds that need to be planted as well. I wanted to get most of my plants in the ground by the weekend and right now I only have a few flowers and a couple squash plants left.
Tomorrow I should finish with all my plants including planting all the seeds needed for a successful garden. I will be planting some extra seeds of zucchini and pumpkin. (more…)
Now that the entire garden has been tilled I wanted to get as much into the ground as possible. This includes seeds such as corn and beans that need to be planted before June. I also got most of my flowers into the ground which is another important element of my garden.
I still have plants that I have not had the chance to place in the garden, but most of these are just transplants of fruits and vegetables. I will hope to finish them sometime this week. (more…)
The weather lately has been quite crazy with some warm days last week and then a cold blast the past couple of days. We even had a snow storm this past week and that definitely interrupted the process of getting my spinach plants into the ground.
It actually got so cold that the ground refroze and I couldn’t do anything even though I had tilled part of the garden the week before. I was hoping to get my spinach plants transplanted by this past weekend, but because of the cold and rain I was unable to do that. (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…)
I had ten more tomatoes that were still in pots and continuing to grow, but starting to look like they were becoming pot bound. This is something to avoid when growing indoors and since they had grown as far as they could in the containers I thought it would be best to place them in the garden right away.
I have over twenty tomato plants that are either steakhouse, Roma, or cherry tomatoes. I should have more of the super sauce Roma plants than any of the others because I planted all 25 seeds that came in the packet and only a few of steakhouse and cherry. Hopefully more sauce to be made this season. (more…)
I have been real busy this week trying to get as many plants into the ground as possible before the weekend. I wanted to get my melons and cucumbers in the ground as soon as possible in order to get them growing faster right away. They need some time to produce fruit and the quicker they are placed in the ground the sooner the harvest.
We also got some rain this week as well and that was definitely a good help for all my plants that were outside and in the ground especially my onions, lettuce, and spinach. (more…)
It is now the busiest time of the year in terms of gardening and it is time to start transplanting all the plants I have been growing during the Spring. This also means start planting seeds that were not grown indoors as well.
For now I have started with my cooler plants in order to get them into the soil as quickly as possible since the weather is starting to heat up which is not good for lettuce. My spinach plants are starting to bolt which means I will be running out of leaves to harvest. (more…)
