Container Gardening

May 18, 2008 at 12:15 am (Container Gardening, Spring)

What great weather for the first long weekend of the summer! Today it’s gotten up to 27. Tomorrow is supposed to be 26, and on Monday it’s going to be 19. Tuesday how ever the temperatures head south and we get rain.

This morning I planted a couple seedlings in containers. I put a couple marigolds in two pots as well as putting one of my many (really too many) tomatoes in another one. I also brought out a pot that I had some lettuce, parsley, and basil in to harden off a bit. I guess I left it out a little too long (even though it was in the shade) and the basil started to look a little droopy. But it’s a couple hours later now and the basil looks like it’s recovered.

I’m not looking forward to having to harden off the plants that I have. It’s going to take forever to take them out and then bring them back in everyday.

The backyard it starting to look so green now, with the leaves starting to come out on the trees. I love this time of year with the weather and the new plants, it’s all so fresh and new.

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Peas!

May 9, 2008 at 1:14 am (Peas, Planting, Rain barrel, Spring)

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.

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Bloom

April 4, 2008 at 12:01 am (Spring) ()

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. 

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