Everything is turning GREEN!!!

For some reason this weekend as I sat at my kitchen table gazing outside at our beautiful country view I noticed that the grass is really starting to turn green! And that Duke, my yellow lab, really stands out a lot in the green background as he is doing his business in my front lawn right outside the windows.........I really wish he would find somewhere else to do that!

We had a really productive and exciting weekend on the 1/2 acre farm! Saturday (March 28th) the kids and I removed all the peat pots from the green house, and proceeded to replant everything that I had planted in the peat pots. Last week I ordered 60 4" diameter plastic pots and 24-6 cell trays off of amazon, the 4" diameter pots were $11/30 and the 6-cell trays were $7/24.

The 4" diameter pots seem to be really sturdy and I am hoping that i can reuse them year after year. The 6 cell trays is what the kids used to plant some of moms flower seeds for her! We planted Bachelor Buttons, Pansy's, Sweet Peas (Isla's favorite since that is what I call her), Moon Flowers, and Impatiens. Now I'm sure the kids will be impatiently waiting for the seeds to germinate! Later that evening I replanted tomato plants, and pepper plants, I planted 10 new tomato plants, 5 green pepper plants, 5 red pepper plants, 5 jalapeno plants, and 5 serrano pepper plants.

 

The tomato plants that were planted in plastic Containers look really good! My watering cycle currently is I spritz the seeds and plants once a day, and I water the plants from a watering can every other day! Also yesterday (Sunday March 29th) I went out to the garden and found that we have onion sprouts!!!!

Tomatoes

Onion Sprout



 

My Birthday was March 22nd and I wanted to share one thing that my Aunt Gina got me for my birthday that I thought were really neat. She bought me 2 garden journals! I don't know if I should take it as a sign that she doesn't like my blog, and that I need to keep my journals more private or not though! HAHA I'm kidding Gina! The green one is really neat, its a book for daily journal entries and will keep 5 years worth of entries! The black one is a record keeping book for plants, tools, and for all sorts of information for you to fill in to document what you did! Thank you Gina!