Pictures finally!

  Pepper plant is flowering in the dining room

larger tomato seedlings

the best of the red cabbage

broccoli, radishes and onions

spaghetti squash

Jen's Strawberries

Sugar snap pea seedlings and runner bean seedlings

chives

Things to be planted: zucchini, sweet onions and rosemary

Blueberries!

Today I worked outside just doing general clean up, adding mulch to the compost bin and bedding to the worm bin to cut down on the bugs, weeding around the plum tree, honeysuckle vine, roses and sugar snap peas and removing some extra sod from around the flower bed in the front so the lawn mower won't knock down the plants.   We tried to use the weedwacker and the lawn mower today but neither will work...saved for another day I suppose.  It felt really good to get the basic "cleanup" done, tomorrow I'm going to build a little arbor for the pickling cucumbers and get those planted.  I also have zucchini seeds to plant.

After that it's on to the next experiment!   we are going to sew tubes out of the burlap sacks we got from Seattle Coffee Works and fill them with mulch and make a new herb and tomato bed by the side porch.  I'm really excited to get that started.  We have 6  bags of compost and 3 topsoil so hopefully that will be enough for now.  I also want to get to a farmers market next week to get a seed potato, I'd love to grow some Yukon gold or purple potatoes!

Plans are being discussed to build a chicken coop, we are hoping to get some free pallets for wood, we'll see how that works out.

Really looking forward to getting outside and planting things tomorrow!  After school I want to plant the cucumber and zucchini seeds and the sweet onion starts I got at HD today.  I'm also looking forward to planting purple potatoes but I might have to wait until I buy another on - the one I bought before and sliced up is starting to mold since it has been waiting to be planted for so long - I'm not sure it will sprout now.

On the agenda tomorrow is also calling to get another pile of free mulch to fill our burlap sacks with and possibly a trip to the craft store for some heavy duty thread that can still go thru the sewing machine.  But first class @9am...tomorrow is going to be a busy day, I can't wait to get more stuff done!

a trip to Home Despot and I am home with four bags of topsoil to add to our seven bags of free compost, plus some rosemary and oregano starts. Lacy grabbed some onions to replace the ones we grew from seed that failed outside. These new ones are bigger and stronger. The weather was perfect gardening weather but I was too tired.

Two days ago it was warm and sunny and a great day for gardening, I finally got the little Kohlrabi sprouts into the ground in the smaller bed. Then I ran out of energy. Yesterday we the beginning of a new bigger gardening project. We went to a local coffee roaster for some of their empty burlap sacks which will become more raised beds. I can't wait for the photos of those ones. But we haven't even gotten to the construction phase yet. We are still in the concept/materials gathering phases.

Still no pictures and still sick. *sigh* I think I'm on the recovering side finally though. At least it's been awful and stormy out while I've been sick. Things (of course) have not stopped growing and a few garden inspections have revealed that the cabbages, beans, brussel sprouts, leeks, peas, radishes and broccoli have liked all the cold stormy weather and are growing strong!  The kholrabi inside is growing well too and needs to get put outside.  I'm getting really excited for warmer weather and even more things to grow!

Today is no school for me and soon Jen & Jarett will be home and we're off to the Russian spa in town to sit in the steam room and parilka  and hopefully recover the rest of the way.