OK so it's been about a week ...

Where I'm supposed to build my garden it flooded. One pic is overcast and the other sunny privi to how crazy the weather is these pics were taken seconds apart

Don't worry you havn't missed much it's been raining as if we're gonna need an arc. It is strange, I always see worms come out when it rains but they always stay close to the dirt don't they ? With last nights rain I saw maybe about 20 on my back patio this would not have been strange except for the fact that they were nowhere near the ground and drying up, I felt so bad for them.( I had Mike go out there and toss the poor little buggers back onto the lawn) O:) I have nothing against worms it's just I sometimes don't want to touch them, they wiggle!


See told you I didn't hate the worms even had Mike build them a worm box (abt 4 ft LX abt 2 ft W)from directions we got off the internet this box is BIG

New baby plants

I don't know what this is but I'm very curious to see what it is

Some of the little lettuce seeds i planted have finally come up, they're soo cute I could just eat them all up (pun intended)

New Spring Flowers

newly pruned rosebush Rosemary chicken, get it ?

more of the yard rosie n mommy playing n new growth on geranium

Rosie and mommy playing amongst the garden

Camelia flowers New growth on our orang tree

overhanging plum tree Not sure what this plant is but it's pretty

flowers from neighbors yard

What we have to work with

So here are some pictures of the yard we have to work with notice the big pile of cut up shrubbery in the middle of it all is a little bit of what's left of what we've cut down so far this yard was very overgrown ...

Starting from seed

My first attempt at square foot gardening
So I'm going to try and start most of my plants from seeds , if everything goes well it should fill my planned 20ftx4ft plot and then a little extra .Unfortunately since $$ is a little tight we cannot buy the proposed soil to fill it, but we are going to try and get something a little less expensive almost as good, some compost from a rock place down the street. The soil we buy from there will be amended throughout the season with worm castings that we are going to raise ourselves from the worm bin Mikes' (YAY MIKE!!! ) going to build from directions we found online.






These are White lisbon scallions These are my other seedlings
Both of these starter seeds are currently in my kitchen as it is the warmest spot in the house and I can tend to them easily where they are .

The list of plants I'm planting this year are:

1.White Lisbon Onions(Scallions)(inherited from Mikes grandpa)
2.Liana RS (Asparagus beans) says best to pick when they are less than 18" long wow...
3.Red Large Fruited(Cherry tomato)
4.Bush Champion (Cucumber)
5.Jalapenos
6.Black seeded simpson(Lettuce)
7.Grand Rapids (Lettuce)
8.Salad Bowl (Lettuce)
9.Patio hybrid (Tomato)
10.Yellow Chili Pepper(inherited from Mikes grandpa)
11.Green Bell Peppers (inherited from Mikes grandpa)
12.Red Bell Peppers (inhertied from Mikes grandpa)
13.Red chili Long Pod "Hot"(inherited from Mikes grandpa)
14.Super sweet 100 (Cherry tomato)
15.Danvers Half Long (Carrots)
16.Black Beauty (Zucchini)
17.Marketmore 76 (cucumber)
18.Sweet Corn (inherited from Mikes grandpa)
19.Cherry Belle (Radish)

Flowers include:
18.Petite mixed marigolds
19.Skyscraper (sunflower)
20.Teddy Bear(sunflower)

Hopefully all the seeds give me some plants, those inherited seeds are some years old but I'm doing it for Mike's grandpa who loved gardening but is no longer with us.

wed 3/24/2010

So this is my first blog, Gosh i hope it's good .