In the Ground: Round 1

Today the seeds for carrots, radish, turnip, spinach, lettuce, and potatoes all went into the ground. I get nervous that one seed is not enough or not going to work, so I always put a few in the little hole (I'll thin the others out if I have too later)

• Four Yukon Gold Potatoes
• 12 Danvers Half Long Carrots
• 12 Nantes Scarlet Half Long Carrots
• 12 French Breakfast Radish
• 9 Purple top white globe turnip
• 2 Bloomsdale long standing spinach
• 4 bibb lettuce

Aside from the lettuce, I have not grown or had success growing any of these.... YET! Now that I live in the house with the garden in the backyard and not just visiting on the weekend, I'll have a better chance of keeping up with it. A little warm water and a whole lot of sunshine and I'm hoping for a good salad this summer.

Time to Plant

Hopefully all this looming cold weather and snow warnings will not affect my garden from producing. Today I added a bag of manure to the garden box, mixed it with the top soil and water to create a nice environment for new seeds. I am trying more from seeds this year than purchasing seedlings at Lowes or some other garden center. It always amazes me how something grows from a tiny seed.

This year I am starting Black Cherry Tomatoes, Sweet Bell Peppers, and Black Beauty Eggplant inside. I put the seeds in peat pots with seed starter and wrapped them in plastic bags. We keep the house on the chilly side but I'm hoping they will do okay to transplant later.

Time to Plan

It's starting to warm up in my 6A gardening zone. Time to layout what I'm going to plant this year. I still had some seeds left from last year's planting to incorporate. This year I was branching out to more Heirloom varieties thanks to this new show the Fabulous Beekman Boys that Dave and I are addicted too. In addition to our 4x4 garden box, we have ventured into blueberries and some Hopps that we are going to try out our green thumb. After much research, here is what I came up with: