Thankful Thursday and quick update

Yes, I do realize it’s Friday– but better late than never!
I’m thankful this week that some loose ends for my dissertation work are starting to get tied up.  One last major hurdle and I think I’m set to go to finish my analysis.  And today I officially set my defense date for July 22.  It’s [...]

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Transplantation

I’ve been looking forward to this day all winter long!  I planted out my tomato and herb sprouts that had been growing in Husband’s office.
We trucked them home on Friday after work, and I could hardly wait to start planting them on Saturday.  Here’s the balcony before I started.  You can see that the lettuces [...]

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More seeds

On Saturday morning, I attended the small-space gardening class at Prairie Gardens.  It was interesting, though having done a lot of reading/research on the subject of container gardening, and having done it for 2 years, not a lot of the information was brand new to me.  But it’s always good to have your facts reinforced.
After [...]

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Regenerating green onions

Last Monday, I made a recipe that used a few green onions.  Inspired by Jimmy Cracked Corn’s post, I decided to save the ends and replant them.  I didn’t feel like going out in the wind and cold to get more soil right then, so I just stuck them in some water.  I was amazed [...]

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Seed planting 2009!

Hurray!  The day finally came to plant seeds.  Yesterday I finally sat down and decided what I was going to plant where so that I could start enough seeds.  I think I finally have a plan:
3 pots with Early Girl tomatoes  (directly sow lettuce in this pot, later)
1 pot with Yellow Pear tomatoes (directly sow [...]

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I want to do it right this time…

Last year, I started my seeds *WAY* late.  This year, I want to get it right!  I’ve marked back from the last-frost-date the number of weeks on each of the different seed packets.  Is it bad to start them too early?  I’d love some feedback from some more experienced gardeners out there, if you read [...]

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Vacation, storms, a failed experiment, and some peas

Wow, it’s been a while since I’ve posted…  We went on vacation to North Myrtle Beach, SC with my extended family and had a wonderful time.  God blessed our trip– we missed all the really bad weather due to the hurricanes, and it was a lovely 6 days of sunshine and only a little bit [...]

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Peanut butter greenhouses

The past few days it’s been much cooler than you might expect for a midwestern May and it’s also been pretty windy.  I was pretty worried about the little tomato sprouts, because after their first night outside, each sprout had at least one wilted leaf.  So on Sunday, I started looking around for something to [...]

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The sprouts get planted

On Saturday, the weather was gorgeous– sunny and warm. gardengeekette decided it would be a good day for the sprouts to get planted in their new homes. It is pretty windy on the balcony and she was afraid that the sprouts might snap if they weren’t planted in the big pots soon. [...]

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Lettuce woes

My black-seeded Simpson is not doing very well.  I’m not exactly sure what the problem is.  Ever since I thinned them, the sprouts have languished– one of them has even flat out died.  They don’t seem to have any self-support the way they used to, and I usually find them sort of lying down.  Perhaps [...]

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