The New Addition!

My wonderful wife got me a fantastic birthday present.  I know it seems crazy but I am very excited about our new addition, the compost barrel! 

We have already put a bunch of materials in to compost and it is cooking away.  We are excited to have compost from our own garden and lawn waste available for re-use in those very areas.  Word on the street is "SUSTAINABILITY".

Garden Progress

 The garden has been progressing very well. All of our plants that we started from seeds are flourishing except the peas and the spinach. The seed packets that we used were expired and from what I have been told, those two plants are very sensitive as seeds. We have so many more plants than we did last year and the rain barrels are really struggling to keep up. The Topsy-Turvy plants, the hanging baskets and the flower boxes are really the most sensitive to the lack of rain so those require daily watering. We did receive some rain last night, but only enough to fill one barrel. Pictures of the garden and plants are posted below for your viewing pleasure!

 

A long day of work

Today we really got to work on the gardens.  Last fall we removed decorative plantings along the sunny side of the house in preparation for a vegetable garden.  Our planting is now complete and includes a variety of tomatoes, green peppers, carrots, beets, celery, lettuce, peas, spinach, cucumbers, squash, strawberries and a pumpkin totaling approximately 100 plants.  We added some topsy turvey planters to our collection so we now have two tomato topsy turvey and one strawberry topsy turvey.  The rain barrels are in service and full of water.  We are excited to see how it all turns out.  Stay tuned--------

Garden Season Has Started

We have started our gardening season early this year.  We hope to have plenty of plants started when the growing season kicks off for us sometime after the middle of April.  The seeds were sown on March 14th.  A Burpee "Greenhouse" that self-waters was chosen to start the plants.  We can then transplant the new plants into smaller containers once they are started.  It is a litte tedious to have to move the "Greenhouse" out in the morning into the sun and then back inside at night but we are hoping for an early harvest and a much longer growing season.  Wish us luck!