Finally got to start in my garden plots last weekend.
Took over 2hrs to turn it all over and twine off my plots (I have two plots in a community garden: 200 sq ft of gardens this year!) but alas - I love to be outside, smelling dirt - thinking about all the goodies I hope to harvest later this summer!
My garden last year flooded, flooded, flooded. It was quite devastating; especially considering the cash I dumped into it (I bought all starter plants last year).
This year is different - starting from seeds - indoor and out!
I started 36 plants from seed this past weekend (4 each of: 4 tomato varities, serrano peppers, jalapenos, bell peppers, thyme and basil) and they started sprouting (hardly) yesterday - and I am SO excited! I've been like a little kid checking and re-checking for growth! None of my peppers have sprouted yet but as of tonight everything else has!
Turns out it's a big, fat pain in the ass to "harden" the plants to the outdoors when you start 'em from seed indoors: we'll have to see how this all goes; but it's also very exciting to learn too! I make soup like crazy throughout the fall, winter, spring and I hope to get an ton of 'maters and learn how to can them and/or turn them into sauce etc. to use in my soup next season! The gardens are all organic (as am I!) and all the seeds I bought and my fertilizer etc is all organic so it will hopefully work out quite well!
Here are a few pics of the beginnings!
(apparently I uploaded them in opposite order of what I wanted: guess what? not changing it...).
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