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May 8, 2008 | 2:57 AM PST
Tags: seed problems , weather
~May 7th, 2008~
I have definitely learned a lot about growing plants from seed indoors this spring and have become successful in doing an adequate job of it. I have prepared my outdoor garden carefully, amending the soil, cleaning out the winter mess, and designing new flower beds. When the time was right I planted my outdoor seeds, watered and watched. The weather has warmed and I was so happy to see sprouts in the flower beds. Thats the end of my "dreamy" spring. Something is eating my seedlings!!! I don't know what. About a week ago I noticed what I thought to be cat paw prints/impressions in my garden close to where I had planted some seeds. I passed it off as that, but when I saw the cat walk though the garden and he left no impressions. I was worried and thought, "It can't be....nooooooooooooo", something was getting my seeds. I decided to wait it out and keep watering and planting more seeds in proper spots. So, sure enough a few seedlings begin to emerge, boy 'o boy was I happy!! "They've made it!" I thought!! So, super excited I went on with gardening. The next day I went out with Hannah to check on my other "babies" and to my horror they were gone. "Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?" I wanted to scream!! What could possibly be torturing me? Killing my innocent little babies??
PLEASE, IF ANYONE KNOWS WHAT CAN BE GETTING MY BABIES, PLEASE HELP!! ALSO WHAT I MAY DO TO STOP THEM?!
I am planning on setting up my husbands "Game Cam", a camera made for capturing picture of wildlife using motion sensors. Last year I caught the "Beast" eating my wild Columbine tops off standing on it's hind legs. I couldn't figure out exactly what it was. In the end (after catching it in a live trap) we figured that it was a pack rat. We ended up catching at least 6 or more last summer (needless to say I had a terribly hard time keeping any flower for too long and was VERY frustrated).
Above is the picture of the "Beast" that was eating my flowers last year caught on camera by my husbands "game cam".
Above is one of the many "Beasts" that attacked my garden. Also known as a Pack Rat, notice I caught him using tin foil as they love shiny things.
We have had really strange weather for the past two days. It'll rain, get windy, then get super sunny and hot out, next we'll get hail. Yesterday it was raining/hailing on one half of my house and not on the other for like 10 or more minutes, it was weird! Only half my garden ended up getting watered substantially.
I hope everyone is getting great gardening weather!
~M~
Apr 30, 2008 | 2:46 AM PST
Tags: seeds , Hollyhocks , malva zebrina , weather , peat pots
Well, here are a few pictures of some of the seedlings I was talking about in my last blog.
Above is an example of the peat pots I use to transplant my larger seedlings into once they outgrow the seed things I started them in.
Above are the seedlings that I thought I started only a short while ago and they sprouted very quickly!! I am happy that they sprouted fast, I just love seeing them!
Boy o' boy, I've made a mess!! I have a 17 month old little girl and she gets into everything, so I have to keep everything up off the floor. It gets kind of cluttered sometimes.
Above is my Malva Zebrina that is struggling to make it. I was so happy when I noticed the new little leaf started!
Above is one of a few hollyhock seedlings. I am so happy they are working! I wonder though if I will get any flowers out of them this year?? Any ideas?
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The weather is quite strange this week. Tonight I think it may have froze again. I wonder when our proper last frost date is going to be this year!? I looked it up online and it said April 1-April 30th. That really wasn't much help, I think I could have guessed better than that. We had a major rain yesterday afternoon with thunder and lightning (strange for this early in the year though). It was so nice to get some moisture. We really have had mostly cold and gray weather, not much rain this year (still more spring to come however, so we shall see). Today was warm if you got moving around (i.e. digging and raking, walking my daughter in her stroller), but still too cold to wear anything less than a warm sweat shirt. I can't wait for it to warm up. Just a little is all I am asking for, tehe-hehe. I know that as soon as it gets scorching I will be complaining about how hot it is though....hummm...
Anyway, I hope everyone has a great rest of your week! More updates later!
~M~
