Yep, that's right. Time to start the garden. After last year's awful experience with (first) the mini river running through my garden and then it drying up, I wondered this year if it was even worth it. But, of course, I couldn't go without my summer garden! SO....
We've started it. The process actually started last Fall when Josh fertilized and disked it for me. Now its time to start the plants. Sarah Rose and I started our tomatoes, green peppers and hot peppers two or three weeks ago. Just recently, we started giant pumpkins, cabbage and petunias growing. If the plants do as well as I hope they do, our small investment in the peat pots and seed should be a huge blessing compared to what we could spend on buying and planting plants later in the spring.
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The petunias. A flat holds 50 and we have two flats. This worked out perfectly, as I grabbed two packs of seed, each pack having 50 seeds. THEN a few days later I found and picked up the peat pot flats... which just happens to have 50 little pots in them! |
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How little is a petunia seed? The picture is a little blurry, but you can see the little seed on Lincoln's head. |
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Next, in a smaller flat of 36, we planted 18 giant pumpkin seeds. The other 18 pots were to be planted next in cabbage seeds, which were equally tiny to the petunias. |
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These are the tomato and pepper plants we started: 18 tomatoes on the left, 12 green peppers in the middle and 6 hot peppers on the right. I hope to have huge plants by the time they're ready to plant in the garden. Actually, right now there are 3 times that many plants I mentioned; we planted three seeds to the pot and haven't thinned them out to just one per pot yet. |
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All the plants sit by my south bedroom window. The pot at the bottom of this picture is my cactus pot, having the souvenir cactus we got a year ago from the botanical center and jade (I think) plants. They both have just now started to grow after a year of doing nothing. Who knew my cactus would like the winter weather? |
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