Geeekygirl’s Garden Blog

I planted the peas on Saturday morning. Yesterday I went out in the garden to see if the crocuses had bloomed yet and I noticed that there was a tiny seedling where I had planted the peas!

Is it possible for peas to germinate in 24 hours, even if it’s just one? I looked online and it said that peas germinate in 7 to 14 days. I moved around a lot of the surrounding dirt when I was planting the peas, so I doubt that it was there before I planted them, or else I would have killed it. I guess I’ll have to wait til it gets bigger to have a look at it ans find out if it is a pea.

Does anyone have any ideas about the mysterious seedling?

So, I’m brand new at gardening. This is my first season. I’ve been itching to get into the garden and do some planting but there are still a couple more weeks left before the last frost. It feels like it’s going to take forever. Just to drive home the fact that I still have to wait it snowed today. Yes, snow. In May. But then again May has a reputation for bringing crazy weather to this city.

I was looking through my packages of seeds tonight and I opened up the peas because it said “Look inside for tips”. So I tear it open and lo and behold it says to plant 6 weeks before the last frost! How come it doesn’t say this on the OUTSIDE of the package? I could have planted them a couple weeks ago! Tomorrow (hopefully the snow will melt in the morning) I will plant the peas and finally be out in the garden.

On a side note we got a lot of rain along with the snow and our new rain barrel is already full of water. We didn’t have to wait very long for mother nature to fill it up.

I was also planning to post of pics of what’s already coming up in the garden, but it’s been pretty miserable the last day or two with the rain/snow. But pics are coming.

I bought a rain barrel and composter on Friday. We set both of them up as soon as we got home.

We already have quite a few kitchen scraps in the composter as well as some leaves leftover from the fall. Now I’m just not sure if I can wait long enough for it to be turned into actual compost.

Today has been pretty yucky outside. It can’t decide if it wants to rain or not so it’s cloudy and the sun won’t come out. It was raining a bit this morning and I went out to check to see how the rain barrel was doing and it’s collecting water! Woohoo. I’m surprised how much water is in it already.

Yeah, so I’m excited about my rain barrel and composter.

I just got back home today from housesitting. I didn’t have access to the internet, thus the lack of posts.

My seedlings have been getting watered, although some were really dry this morning so I gave them an extra long drink.

Both of my Cosmos and Morning Glories have sprouted! I’ll take a picture of them once they’re a little bigger.

Although it feels like spring inside with plants sprouting, it definitely feels like winter outside. It snowed this morning and for a bit this afternoon. The drive to work this morning was chaos. Hopefully the sun will melt most of the snow tomorrow.

Having just started gardening this year I don\t have a lot of equipment. I don’t have grow lights or a ton of pots or shovels.

This posed a bit of a problem for indoor sowing. What do I put the seeds in? I decided that instead of buying a ton of peat pots that I’d only be able to use for one growing season I would recycle containers as much as I could. So I’ve been using milk cartons that have been washed out, cleaned, and cut in half to plant my seedlings. I also have a friend saving hers for me. I’ve also been using plastic food containers, like apple sauce and Jello for sowing seeds in and bigger ones like margarine containers to but bigger seedlings in. I’ve also been using plastic beer cups to put bigger plants in. Although they were new when I first used them, i plan on using them year after year.

I’ve also been reusing the cardboard trays that water bottles come in. I cover them in garbage bags so that they\re waterproof (I can cover 4 or 5 trays from one large garbage bag if I cut them out properly) and I can put all the containers with plants in them. If I had to carry the pots around individually it would take forever.

What recycling tips do you have for your garden?

Two of my peppers have sprouted! I had to share the good news. I’m so excited about them, can you tell? 

I”ll post a picture in a few days when they’re a bit bigger. 

I’m sick of the lack of color outside. I want to be able to look in the backyard and see the green of foliage and beautiful flowers.  So here’s a Bloom from a couple years ago to look at while waiting for spring to come. 

Here are some more of my seedlings that I have going.

Lobelia

Tomatoes

Basil

All of my seedlings

Well, this is my first post. I thought I’d share some of the seedlings I have going.

Last batch of radishes

Daisy Seedlings

Cilantro Seedlings

Red Robin Tomato

Sweet Pea Seedling

Lettuce Seedlings

Carrot Seedlings

I have more but I’ll post them later.