Today's Plantings...

Indoors:

Basil -
-Dark Opal
-Globe
-Red Rubin
-Lettuce Leaf
-Sweet Genovese
Roman Chamomile
Marigold - Lemon Gem
Nasturtium -
-Black Velvet
-Empress of India
Love-in-a-Mist
Hollyhock - Nigra
Feverfew
Shasta Daisy
Borage
Bronze Fennel
Hyssop
Cilantro
Cosmos -
-Picotee
-Sensation
Zinnia -
-Profuison White
-Cut and Come Again
Calendula

Outdoors in coldframes -

Peas -
Blue podded
Golden Sweet (podded)
Spinach -Bloomsdale
Chard - Silverbeet
Lettuce -
Red Iceberg
Gold Rush

A Whole lotta Diggin' Going On!

Today, Dan dug the post holes for the garden fence we will be putting up. The children played on the trailer, stuck rocks in a pipe, played with the neighbors grandkids, rode bikes, and dug their own holes:) It was a beautiful day!

This is a view taken from where the front of the fence and a gate will be. Where Dan is working there will be a privacy fence and that will connect to the backyard fence. The chickens and eventual ducks will be able to walk behind the garage into the side yard. About where the neighbors chain link ends will be another fence (welded wire) running across the width (with a gate) to keep the birds out of the garden. The wire fencing will then be used to fence the raised beds.

Signs of Spring '09

Garlic

Over wintered greens and onions

Marley looking for a bunny snack

Today I started....

Tomatoes
Amish Paste
Aunt Ruby's German Red Cherry
Weeping Charley
Cream Sausage
Cuor Di Bue
Chocolate Stripes
Purple Russian
Cherokee Purple
opalka
Green Sausage
Red Zebra
Orange-Fleshed Purple Smudge
Orange Banana
Egg Yolk

Peppers
Sweet Yellow Stuffing
Mini Red Bell
Sweet Chocolate
Tequila Sunrise
Ancho
Anaheim
Black Hungarian
Purple Jalapeno

Green Tomatillos
Purple Tomatillos
Johnny Jump ups
Alyssum
Oregano
Sweet Annie
Dahlia - Bishops Children
Court Jester Chrysantemum
Italian Parsley
Bergamont
German Chamomile

I wanted to get more done, but I ran out of inserts!!!

In the refrigerator,

We now have butterflyweed and joe-pye weed started. Doing the paper towel method to start these:)

And it begins....

I got the first couple of flats planted today. Lilah helped, so it was a bit slow going:)

We planted:

Fuji Dawn
Atlas Needlepoint Pansy
Yarrow - Summer Pastels
Foxglove - Spotted Giant
Thyme
Catnip
Rue
Eggplant -
Thai Yellow
Black Beauty
Rosa Bianca
Cauliflower - Violetta Italia
Broccoli - Del Cicco
Celery - Golden Boy

While planting I discovered they forgot to send me the Johnny Jump-ups I ordered:( I will call them and if they get here soon, I will still be able to get them started in time.

Quick Fix

We kept meaning to pull up the ugly faux brick floor in the entrance. For some reason, we just never did, until last night.....why did we wait so long!?! It makes a big difference

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