Hi everyone!
Today I planted the seeds in the outdoor garden. I put in broccoli, carrots, zucchini, cilantro and basil. I bordered the sides with cosmos, and made areas for the small plants of broccoli, onions, bell and jalapeno peppers, and tomatoes to go once they are properly hardened.
I have the baby plants up to 8-10 hours of outside time per day. So I am just bringing them in at night now. When I know that I have a good few days of mild weather I will transplant them. Right now we are expecting a storm tomorrow and one next week. So maybe after the storm next week. I just want them to have a few days of over night weather to get settled. If a storm did come I could just cover them with laundry baskets and boxes.
I will be putting the planting date and the harvest date on the Scheduler-Calendar page as well. All my planting and harvesting dates are listed there. According to the packets I should be able to start harvesting most of the garden in mid-July.
Thanks for stopping by!!
~Sara
Here in Minnesota it is very apparent to all of us natives that it is most definitely SPRING! However, we have gotten snow at this time of year still. In fact, if it doesn’t snow before May1st it will be the first time in 120 years that we did not see a trace of the white stuff between St. Patrick’s day and May 1st!
We did have some hail in the thunder storm that came through a few nights ago. Nothing accumulated, so I’m thinking that did not count. 🙂
According to my planting schedule you can plant the first section any time now. I put mine in about a week or so ago. In the first week of May you can go ahead and try planting the next section titled, “Early Spring.”
The last section needs to be planted after the last frost date. For the part of Minnesota that I am from that date is May 20th.
Here is a picture of my outdoor garden coming up! I have peas along the back, onions in the first section, and 3 rows of radishes after that.
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Thanks for stopping by!
~Sara
My tap water is so hard and full of chlorine that I have to find a different source for watering my plants.
The very first thing I did when I noticed that the chlorine was burning my plants was to go to the store and buy 3 jugs of water immediately! I was in a panic and I was worried that all my house plants were going to die! As I was using the water I kept thinking about it, and I had heard about using rain barrels etc…
And then I looked outside!! Our landscape is covered in a blanket of about 3-4 feet of snow right now and will be for at least another month or more. In fact, last year we got a snow storm in April that was feet deep. What better source for water! (Duh right?) So I am now watering all of my plants and seedlings with snow that I melt down and place in one of the empty jugs of water. (I also use a very light water soluble fertilizer every time I water.)
Thanks for stopping by!
Sara M
