Friday, April 13, 2007

Lots of time, lots of activity...

OK, so most of the activities have been this week. We had a frost over the weekend, so Wilson had to cover the tomatoes and cucumbers in the big garden. We brought the hanging tomato plant indoors - to liven up the laundry room no doubt.

We've started new cucumbers in the windowsill. They need to be transplanted into the big garden... maybe today?

We've started our container gardens:
  1. 2 Green Bell Peppers
  2. 2 Yellow Bell Pepper plants (one bought on accident - thought it was purple, had to re-buy)
  3. 1 Grape tomato plant and 1 Celebrity tomato plant in Miracle Grow soil.
  4. 1 Grape and 1 Celebrity in regular mixed soil.

And we have some big pots:

  1. 1 Jalapeno Plant
  2. 1 TAM mild Jalapeno plant

And in my herb pot, we have cilantro, parsley, basil, and chives.

Oh, and I have some lettuce sprouting in peat pots. I also planted a couple Japan Plum seeds in peat pots, just to see if they will grow. I saw lots of small trees (saplings?) under the big tree, so they must grow from the seeds, right?

And I finally got around to mulching the flower beds yesterday! (I should take a picture of the grass that died under the bags of mulch in the front yard. Pretty.)

Today's plans include planting a yellow tomato plant in a pot and mulching the planted vegis. Wilson is supposed to be bringing home a drum cut in half crossways (top to bottom). One half will be cucumber plants. The other will have a red bell pepper, a purple bell pepper, and whatever else I can find to plant. He's also bringing in a drum cut the other way for eggplant.

What has happened? Is this just spring fever that makes me think I can deal with all of this growth? Hopefully, it's just a little green rubbing off on me.

Monday, April 2, 2007

Rain!

We got 1/2" of rain yesterday so I didn't have to water. Yay!

And this morning, I planted more cucumber seeds. We apparently threw the old seeds away, all of them.

I also planted two Japan Plum seeds.