Comments on: It’s alive!!!!!

By: razorbackmama

razorbackmama — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 18:59:00 +0000

LOL I know, it’s sad, huh? I do know what full-grown lettuce looks like, but when stuff is only about 2″ tall, it sort of all looks the same LOL!!! Especially since I’ve never had a garden before.

By: vgarr

vgarr — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 12:53:00 +0000

Keer, my dear, (or should that be deer??? lol)

Do you know what lettuce looks like??? Just kidding!! I have no clue about what is what in my garden except the strawberrie, raspberris and tomatoes. (those are rather obvious.)

By: razorbackmama

razorbackmama — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 00:34:00 +0000

Carla, I’d love it! Anything to get some veggies into these kids!

And I’ve figured out that what I thought was lettuce the second time is kidney beans. I have TONS of kidney bean sprouts coming up!

No lettuce that I can tell LOL!!!

By: Carla

Carla — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 22:54:00 +0000

Keer,

If your zucchinis do as well as you think/hope, remind me to give you the recipe for peach-zucchini jam. It is easy (really!!) and good!

By: Holly

Holly — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 21:16:00 +0000

Happy Gardening! I’ll have to check that book out from the library!

By: razorbackmama

razorbackmama — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 14:36:00 +0000

Our spring has been warm, but really I haven’t been able to put anything in the garden till the last few weeks, to make sure all danger of frost is gone. We aren’t from here (NE WA) originally, so this whole “waiting till Memorial Day to put in a garden” thing is so strange! We’re from Arkansas, which has about 100 more days in the growing season LOL!

My tomatoes are pretty sad too. It will be a miracle if I end up with any. But my zucchinis sure are looking good!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 09:15:00 +0000

I don’t know where you live but I’m in Pennsylvania and we’ve had an extremely chilly spring.

My garden is finally starting to wake up and I *finally*!!!!!!! have *roses* Roses, I love them.

But my tomatoes are, for a lack of a better word, stunted! I think its the cold spring. Tomatoes love heat and humidity I’m sure we’ll look forward to plenty of that in days to come.

By: razorbackmama

razorbackmama — Tue, 31 May 2005 23:19:00 +0000

Har har, VA!
Well, what I thought was lettuce is all zucchini, and they look GREAT!!!!!! But as of today I ALSO have lettuc coming up. It is so neat to watch!

I also have some popcorn coming up (4-5 stalks) and some cantaloupe (they look great too). I moved my sad-looking tomatoes and broccoli. Even though it was WAY too early to transplant them (they were all only about an inch tall), I figured I could either leave them in their boxes and for sure kill them, or take my chances. I moved them yesterday, and already today the broccoli has some new growth on them! Yay! The tomatoes are still sort of iffy though. :-/

I planted the second half of my garden yesterday - put in some watermelon, pumpkin, some more lettuce, more popcorn, a different type of cantaloupe, and 2 different types of carrots.

Bobby is very impressed with how everything is growing too. I kid you not - my zucchini grew VISIBLY from yesterday morning till yesterday evening. I’m using Miracle Gro Garden Soil, and so far I’m VERY impressed!!!!!

By: vgarr

vgarr — Mon, 30 May 2005 21:48:00 +0000

Ummm you sure it’s not a weed??? (Just kidding!!)

Good job! We have some plants coming up too.

Our strawberries (all transplanted) are doing great. We actually have some very green strawberries on them. Our raspberries (or is is rasberries??? I never can remember) are not looking as good but not too bad.

4 little very green tomatoes. Peas coming up, and cucumbers coming up too.

By: razorbackmama

razorbackmama — Mon, 30 May 2005 03:24:00 +0000

I borrowed a book from the library called Lasagna Gardening. (I think in a previous blog entry I linked to the website.) I had been planning on tilling our garden plot and all that jazz, but someone recommended this method to me, and IT IS SO EASY!!!!! Basically you layer your garden (hence the “lasagna” name) - you start out with either wet newspaper or cardboard (both of which we have an abundance of!), and then you start layering: peat moss, compost, garden soil, leaves you’ve raked up, grass clippings, pretty much anything. You just layer and layer. I believe the author recommends having a layer of peat moss on every other layer and to have it be the top layer.

So that’s what I did and then planted my little seeds just right in there. Essentially I’ll be composting just right there on the garden spot, and eventually I’ll have a nice, rich layer of soil. I do have a compost pile that I’ve started as well (it hasn’t actually started turning into compost yet - right now it’s still a pile of watermelon rinds, coffee grounds, egg shells, and the like LOL), and I’ll be excited once I can add that too.

Anyway, the Lasagna Gardening book explains that particular method and then goes into a general gardening “how-to” as well. You can check out other books from the library too, I’m sure.

Of course, you are probably asking the wrong person - I haven’t actually HARVESTED anything yet LOL!!!