bussete1's Blog

It's too early, but I wanna!
Mar 30, 2010 | 3:44 PM PST

I know it's waaay to early to even be thinking about this, but I really want to put my tomato plants in the ground.  Now.  I don't want to wait 'till May 15th.  I want to plant them now.  Insert hissy-fit here.  It was a high of 70 today, and it just feels right to be planting things.

On a brighter note, it looks like my daffodils are forming heads!  I also went around and watered my mint and strawberries, which are in pots that stay outside.  They seem to have over-wintered nicely.  Because of this website, it seems that I'm becoming more and more of a successful gardener!  Keep the advice coming!

The First Harvest
Mar 26, 2010 | 4:46 PM PST
I know it's not much, but I am so excited that I was able to go out to the herb garden and get a few onion greens and a couple handfulls of parsley when I was making supper tonight.  We had Fettuccini Turkey Alfredo and those fresh green things just hit the spot!  I can't wait to get the rest of my garden in!

Toilet Paper Rolls
Mar 6, 2010 | 5:19 PM PST

I had to start over on a few of my seeds because I had so many other seedlings in my worm dirt.  I decided to try something new.  I cut toilet paper rolls in half and put them on a plate.  I filled them with dirt, watered them, and added seeds.  We'll see how this goeas.

Daffodills!
Mar 6, 2010 | 7:45 AM PST

It's been a cold, hard winter, and now my daffodills are peeking out of the ground!  I'm so excited.  They look a little light-deprived, but they're tough.  They'll come back from this winter just like the rest of us have.  I love having daffodills and tulips in my garden because in my mind that's proof that spring is back and strong.

Never Again Planting with Worm Dirt
Mar 4, 2010 | 6:07 AM PST
I have worms that compost for me.  I use it like an indoor compost pile.  I unwittingly added bell pepper and celebrity tomato seeds as I used the vegetables over the year.  I used my worm dirt to plant my seedlings.  I planted two seeds in each pod.  I have 10-15 plants in each pod.  I planted sweet 100's in 2 of them, how do I know which one is the sweet 100?  I planted 4 hot peppers.  How do I know which is the hot pepprs?  I'm so frustrated I could spit fire.