Apr 26, 2009

Fruits of my Weekend Labor

I thought I would share with you all some of the things I accomplished this weekend.


I transplanted my tomato seedlings into bigger pots


I planted a new row of Spinach and Kale (you can see the first row on the left)


I dug up all the weeds in the front of my porch and planted some flowers.


I planted some flowers in pots and moved my younger garlic to larger pots. If you look close behind the lite green pot you can see an asparagus spear.


More flowers and garlic


My onions are finally starting to sprout. I guess they just needed an 80 degree day.


And My Raspberry bushes are doing really well.

I Also...
planted a 1/2 row of Beets and a 1/2 row of Radishes
trans-planted some of the mirco-greens and planted more seeds outside
planted bean and pea seeds
and I planted Potatoes
This was a busy weekend but totally worth it

Did anyone else get anything accomplished?

Apr 22, 2009

Getting some Sun



It was such as nice day out on Saturday that I took my seedlings out side for their first taste of real sunlight. Tega seemed to be enjoying the sun almost as much as the seedlings.

All framed


I have finally finished digging up and framing my gardens. Now I just nee them to be filled with delicious veggies.

Apr 7, 2009

Galic Update

Just a quick update. My garlic is enjoying the spring weather just as much as I am.

Here is the garlic I planted back in November. They look happy and healthy I am going to start digging them up in May.


Here is the garlic I planted a few weeks ago, just starting to poke up through the soil.

And I know these aren't garlic plants but they are my new Raspberry plants!

They are even budding.

Apr 5, 2009

I love Spring

This weekend was very productive.
I decided to buy some wood so that I could have "raised" beds. Mostly I just wanted to close off the growing area from my dog so now he won't walk all over my veggies. We enclosed one of the three areas that are going to be for gardening. Yes, I said 3, we have a rain barrel now so I had make a new plan, I also found out that its best to rotate tomatoes every year so that they aren't in the same place year after year. I think my new plan will work better and I am very excited about it.
Here is what my yard looks like right now:
You can see the wood we bought and my water barrels and of course the first of the three beds we will end up with.


Here's a close up of the new bed
I also planted my asparagus crowns and spinach and kale seeds in the new bed. Outside the bed in the basket you can see in the back ground I planted some Broccoli Raab (its in the top left corner, its kind of small)
I traded some of my extra asparagus crowns for some raspberry plants, I they are just kind of sticks right now so I can't really call them bushes. I planted them at the other end of the yard and I don't have any photos, sorry.
I still have a few more asparagus crowns that I can not fit in my garden so if anyone is close and would like some asparagus I would be happy to spread the wealth. It would be great if you had something to trade but not necessary.

Here is my updated plan if anyone is interested.