SheriLL123's Blog

All my babies are growing wonderfully!  I started some more carrots and red and yellow onions today. This time I planted them 'square foot' style instead of rows.  Wanted to see the difference.  Still planted the 3 diff types of carrots so I can see which kind does best for me.

I was also wondering if the size of some of the pieces of mulch in this garden soil was giong to cause a problem for my carrots developing properly.  I dug out the section I planted today and filled it with a much finer soil.  Then I can compare the results.  Oh, I also planted another row of radishes between the squash mound and the peas.  I figure they will be out of the way before it gets too crowded.The salad bowls I planted on my porch are doing great except for the Bibb lettuce.  So I took the strongest seedlings from the pot and moved them out to the raised bed, you can see them above on the left.  If they make it cool. If not, oh well. 

I'm going to start two more pots of the spinach and romaine for the porch.  I hope to keep them going on a cycle. I thinned the spinach pretty hard yest. to see if it would grow better. This is my 1st time growing spinach and I'm not sure which way it's happier.

 Hubby and my OD (older daughter)  worked on the lot a little this weekend.  There were some nice young oak trees covered in vines that I wanted to try and 'free' so they can get in some healthy growth this year.  I think we are going to take that check from uncle sam and finish cleaning up and fence in the lot. Can't wait. =)

Before

After

 The tent is YD's (younger daughter) 'club house'.  We can't start on the real one until we get the lot graded.  YD and I suprised them with some baked apples with crumb topping  for working so hard.  =)  Maybe they'll do more next weekend.

Oh, I finally started those bottle gourd seeds on Sun 2/17.  I just stuck them in one of the 20 gal pots against the fence behind the pool..