Gardening in the Rain

Well today was our scheduled planting day. Well this weekend was scheduled for that and Yesterday we were busy getting prepared doing things like building a new SWC for our tomatoes and filling our daughters flower box with Mel's Mix. We finally made it through the last of our Vermiculite. Now when we have to plant more we will have to buy it in small packages. Last fall when we first discovered Square Foot Gardening We found a vermiculite mine not too far from us in Virginia. We bought a palet load that was over 60 Cu Feet of vermiculite. Well this weekend we finally exhausted our supply of course we did fill over 12 beds for our vegetable garden and our entire flower garden with the stuff so must have filled close to 20 beds or more. Well so after all was done yesterday we called it a day and did not have a chance to plant our seeds that we had to wait until after the LSF. Well the last spring frost for our area was around the 15th. So we were determined to get our seeds and transplants in the ground. So we did not let a little rain stop us from planting our seeds. Well we took shifts and would come in organize what we needed to plant and where then head out and plant them in our garden. Well we got a little soaked but we were able to get everything we wanted to planted. Here is a link to the layout of our garden as well as a look at everything we planted for anyone interested. My Garden Design Well Glad that we had a chance to get everything planted. We got a little wet but it was worth it.

Flowers on squash and cuke seedlings

Good thing that it is nearly time to transfer outside because my squash and cukes that were started indoors have started to flower so should get them outside so that they can thrive. I also transplanted my Giant Pumpkin outside inside it was starting to lose leaves and they were turning yellow so I figured move it out now and if it is too early just start another next week seeded directly outdoors. I certainly learned that do not start squash or pumpkins indoors more than a couple of weeks indoors.

 
 
 

Strawberries and even more strawberries oh my.

Well yesterday our strawberry bare root order finally came in. It seems that we got a double order of all the Strawberries and Asparagus plants that we ordered. So yesterday after work I was already making a trip to Lowe's to pick up fences to surround our future Fruit trees from the deer. But while there found out we not only received our strawberry order but got a double helping. We had already ordered 75 plants figuring I would need lots if I were to have any hopes at getting any before my DD eats them all. Well so now we have 150 plants. We also had to build and fill another 4x4 box to have space to plant them all. Since they were plants if we tried to return them they would have died anyhow. So hopefully at least half the bare root plants will survive so we can get the original number of plants we wanted. If we get more than that I guess will have to make berry jam or something.

Tomato Seedling Progress

Here are some pictures of my tomato seedlings. They seem to be doing well and as the LFD is the 15th we will be acclimating them this week then putting them in the garden probably towards the end of the week. The really large tomato plants are from clippings from last summers plants. I think the longest one is around 2 feet long. So when we put it out we will already have to trellis it.  
 
 
 

Starting a Gardening Blog

This will document my adventures in gardening and show the successes and failures that we encounter as we adventure into the world of Gardening. Here are some of my seedlings. Some of these were started around 29 February 2008.

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