Hello and Welcome I'm Gaby

These are my first attempts at square foot gardening

Saturday, April 17, 2010

By golly we've solved the mystery!

Remember the weird scraggly plant in our front yard that i had no idea what it was ...well it turned out to be this
It's a Peony almost in full bloom .
These are all the plants that are in bloom right now :
and it seems our orange tree is going to do great this year as there were alot of blooms and alot of bees pollinating it, last year we had a total of two, yes I said TWO oranges on that tree it was sad but hooray for bees !!!

Friday, April 16, 2010

All the little cement creatures living in our garden

All inherited and all need to be repainted which I am in the process of doing we also have a couple of penguins and  a sleeping sonbrero guy , we had some donkeys but they went to the great cement heaven in the sky

So I havn't written anything in about a month ...

this is only because there was nothing to write about i believe it was dreary and rainy and awful it was depressing to say the least. Now it seems that the sunny days are here to stay.




Update on my seedlings : Rememember how I had like 16 tomato plants, well hardening them off  about half of the plants died (very tragic) so did the asparagus beansand the lettuce. I'll try the asparagus beans again once the raised beds are in hopefully they'll do much better there.
The corn I planted is doing great  I'll have to get  some bigger pots and transplant them soon they've outgrown their starter home and the raised beds aren't up yet :( . The little marigolds I planted the second time around in a  ice cube tray of all places are doing extremely well that I had to transplant them into bigger containers they don't have flowers yet but they're about 2 inches tall  and have lots of foliage.Lastly the peas I planted got way too big for their containers as well and I transplanted them into the succulents raised bed since there was space for them there and I ran out of big pots to put things in.

The rain has been preventing us from building raised beds for many weeks. Mike and me can't work the soil because it's been so muddy, hopefully now we'll get a chance to do it.I've started to move the old border rocks that were in place where the raised beds will go, those things have been there so long I need a crowbar to pry them from the soil it's a good thing my mama didn't raise a weakling.Mike will work the soil after all the rocks are removed and even it out after which we'll add weed cloth and place our raised beds there.Ta Ta  for now