blueyedkitty04's Blog

Pictures, pictures, pictures and a major busy week +

My last post was titled "Feels like it's been forever", well it has now been quite a while since I last posted a blog entry here. I miss my GG friends! Wish I could catch up on all your blog entries, but who knows when things will settle down enough (probably sometime after the 20th)

Things have been so crazy around here! My husband came home over a week ago which is WONDERFUL, then my daughter had quite a few appointments regarding her eye surgery coming up.

The weather has been just wonderful. We need the rain, but we are enjoying the sun and warmth! Hannah, Kyle and I spend a ton of time outdoors. Since Kyle's been home, we've gone bear hunting (basically a nice drive out in the woods enjoying nature and wildlife - we saw lots of deer and 3 moose), quad riding in the orchard down the road to see the deer eating the cherry tree leaves, and of course playing in the garden!

Things are really coming along in my garden and veggie patch! I am so happy! I have quite a few pictures to post, so maybe I will just post the links to them on my Facebook page so you can see them all there instead of having to upload one at a time on here. I will have to figure that out in a few minutes.

My Zucchini seeds have come in great, my zucchini starts from the nursery are doing well and the cucumber seed I had planted is coming in nice too! I have a great start of radishes, carrots, peas, beans and broccoli as well as lettuce seed that should be coming up soon. I can't wait! Things seem to be going well in my veggie patch! Thank goodness since I worked so hard on amending the soil there! I do need to put some more liquid fertilizer or more manure on the zucchini areas soon.

I have one concern though. Some of my flowers that were started outside from seeds seem to be turning yellowish. Could that be lack of nutrients or more likely over watering? I am trying to only water once a day or every other day there and things don't seem to be changing.

Speaking of watering. I have two questions I've been meaning to ask on that matter:

HOW DO YOU WATER YOUR FLOWER GARDEN?

HOW DO YOU WATER YOUR VEGETABLE GARDEN?

My main preponderance here is to figure out what is the most efficient way of watering plants. Also w/out wasting water and minimizing the weeds around the plants/garden area. There is no need to water around the garden really is there? I water my garden by hand with a hose nozzle sprayer that can be adjusted to lower/higher levels of water. I feel it's pretty efficient, but I am so curious what other methods gardeners use.

Okay, so I decided I will add links to a Facebook photo album so you can see all the pictures there instead of one at a time on here. I have so many, it will be easiest to just upload them there and then post the link here. Sorry if this bothers anyone, but I don't have a ton of time to upload them the slow way.

Gardening June 2009 and beyond....

I hope everyone is doing well! More as time permits!