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I put in all of my seedlings last weekend, as far as I can tell everything is doing OK. We had some rain on Tuesday, that helped. We have a nice patch of lamb's lettuce growing in the raised bed closest to the house, that'll probably be ready to start picking in a month or so. I have a bunch of tomato plants in this year, in fact I may have overdone it a bit, but we'll see how many of the seedlings actually survive. I managed to get one pepper and one cucumber plant out of the seedlings. Oh, and I also have a large container where I'm growing herbs and parsley, and another where I threw a bunch of flower seeds in and we'll see what happens. I planted my pea plants along a trellis next to the kitchen, hopefully they'll grow up and along it.
I purchased some Icelandic poppies and hardy gardenias online, but they were still pretty early in development when we got them - not quite seedlings, but definitely not fully grown. I've put them in pots so I can monitor them a little closer, not ready to put them in the soil quite yet. I also want to think a little more about where to put the gardenias, since I don't want to have to dig them up once they're in. There's a spot in the front of the house where I spread some black-eyed Susan seeds, we'll probably put the poppies with them in there once they've all grown.
The wisteria tree in our front yard was fragrantly full of blossoms, but they're gradually fading off. The bumblebees remain happy with what's left. My comfrey plant made it through the winter and is putting out multiple flower stalks now. Comfrey is supposed to be notoriously difficult to start from seed, but I may try it if the opportunity presents itself. I definitely should have some nice samples to submit to the county fair this year if the plant maintains itself like it has.
There's a couple of local plant sales happening tomorrow, I'll be looking to get some more vegetable plants there. With the increase in food prices, it just seems to make sense to try and grow as much myself as I can. To be honest, I get satisfaction knowing that even when I'm not at home, the plants are still growing.
We had frogs living in our rain barrels last year, and I sighted the first one of the season last weekend. I put a small piece of cardboard and a piece of wood on top of the water to give them something to float on. Unfortunately, the flip side to not using pesticides might have manifested itself in the low number of flowers we got on our two dwarf apple trees this year; it seemed like they were here and gone in a week. Last year when we moved into the house there were many, many apples still on the tree, but I suspect if we're going to get any kind of decent crop this year I'll have to get a bigger ladder to get to them...which I need anyway, since the house inspector last year said I need to retar the part of the roof where the attic vents stick out.
The house on the north side of us has been empty for about a month now - foreclosure case, sadly - and with all the rain the grass has really been growing. It looks like I'll have to go over and mow their front lawn as well as ours, which I should be able to manage by stringing extension cords together to reach their lawn.
I purchased some Icelandic poppies and hardy gardenias online, but they were still pretty early in development when we got them - not quite seedlings, but definitely not fully grown. I've put them in pots so I can monitor them a little closer, not ready to put them in the soil quite yet. I also want to think a little more about where to put the gardenias, since I don't want to have to dig them up once they're in. There's a spot in the front of the house where I spread some black-eyed Susan seeds, we'll probably put the poppies with them in there once they've all grown.
The wisteria tree in our front yard was fragrantly full of blossoms, but they're gradually fading off. The bumblebees remain happy with what's left. My comfrey plant made it through the winter and is putting out multiple flower stalks now. Comfrey is supposed to be notoriously difficult to start from seed, but I may try it if the opportunity presents itself. I definitely should have some nice samples to submit to the county fair this year if the plant maintains itself like it has.
There's a couple of local plant sales happening tomorrow, I'll be looking to get some more vegetable plants there. With the increase in food prices, it just seems to make sense to try and grow as much myself as I can. To be honest, I get satisfaction knowing that even when I'm not at home, the plants are still growing.
We had frogs living in our rain barrels last year, and I sighted the first one of the season last weekend. I put a small piece of cardboard and a piece of wood on top of the water to give them something to float on. Unfortunately, the flip side to not using pesticides might have manifested itself in the low number of flowers we got on our two dwarf apple trees this year; it seemed like they were here and gone in a week. Last year when we moved into the house there were many, many apples still on the tree, but I suspect if we're going to get any kind of decent crop this year I'll have to get a bigger ladder to get to them...which I need anyway, since the house inspector last year said I need to retar the part of the roof where the attic vents stick out.
The house on the north side of us has been empty for about a month now - foreclosure case, sadly - and with all the rain the grass has really been growing. It looks like I'll have to go over and mow their front lawn as well as ours, which I should be able to manage by stringing extension cords together to reach their lawn.
