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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Quickie garden update

There are lettuce and pea sprouts in my outdoor pots!  Whee!  Last Saturday the weather was so beautiful that I had to get outside.  So after I got home from helping some friends move in the morning, I went out and set up my pots on the balcony.  Since I’m using potting soil for the [...]

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Would you look at those sprouts?!

I was  pretty sick at the beginning of the week, so it was a nice surprise to find an email from Husband saying that a whole bunch of my seeds had sprouted on Monday!  I didn’t have him take any pictures, but I finally got healthy and went in today to see them for myself.
First, [...]

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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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Unsproutyness

I’m a bit worried that the sprouts aren’t coming up.  The one Early Girl sprout I mentioned in a previous post is still growing okay, and I’ve spotted a parsley sprout or two and a basil sprout or two, but otherwise, the containers are sproutless.  I wonder how long I should wait before trying to [...]

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First sprout!!

The first sprout appeared today (well, it might have come up over the weekend, but I saw it today at lunch!)!!!

It’s an Early Girl tomato sprout.  Funny, because the Yellow Pear and Tiny Tim tomatoes both have shorter germination times (3-8 days) than the Early Girl (10-15 days)
But I’m just excited to have any sprouts [...]

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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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Something to look forward to…

Today I figured out some planting dates for my tomato and cucumber seeds…  and I only have to wait another 4 or 5 weeks to plant!  I’m really looking forward to spring

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