Planting peas

This evening we planted a few rows of peas. These were Dwarf Gray or something like that. The seeds were purchased last year and have been in the frig for a year. (I think only a year.)

Yesterday we brought wood chips back from the recycling center. There are lots of twigs in the chips. We put some paper bags down and then covered those with the wood chips between the rows of peas.

The plan is reclaim the south part of the garden back to yard because it does not get afternoon sun. The soil needs a lot of work and without sun, it's probably too much effort to actually get something to grow there.

I did see a sprout of asparagus yesterday!

Planted in my make shift "cold box"

Planted on 2/20. It was a beautiful day. Put cover on Sunday night. Froze Monday morning and have a cover of snow on Wednesday.

Daffodils are up all over the house. Some tips just showing, on south side of house they are up a couple of inches. I really need to thin the ones on the south side of the house.

planted in egg cartons

On Wednesday boys planted two types of beets and two types of lettuce in egg cartons with soil. They are sitting in the south window of the living room.
I hope to set them outside this weekend some for some real sun.
If they sprout then I'll put them under the shower door in a box garden as my "green house".

Daffodil tips

Daffodils are up a couple of inches on the south side of the house.
In the back next to the fence, there are lots of daffodils up.
Next to the driveway, I saw the first tips yesterday, but not up close to the rain barrel.
Wood hyacinths have been up for a long time. Their tips are burned.

May 28th - update

Ate first sugar snap peas from peas I planted on the south side of the house.

Lots of other peas blooming. The "bush" style ones are pretty big and should probably be climbing something. There are some pods on those as well. Their blooms are purple.

Valentine radish are needing to be thinned so they can actually make some fruit.

The wild daisies that I dug up from up the street are blooming in my back yard.

Clematis is blooming too - all three of them.

Lots of dianthus are blooming too!

Garden Update

What's blooming?
Columbine in two different pink colors
Iris - even along the back fence
Peony is just about ready
Phlox is just about finished
Two hanging baskets of annuals were purchased this weekend
Chives
Thyme

Some of the peas should be blooming soon.

We planted a lot of plants this weekend
Cucumbers
Tomatoes
Zucchini
Peppers
Rosemary
basil
Planted some beets as well.

Want to get pumpkins started.
Need to plant black beans
Green beans that my mom planted are coming up
They were planted in a lot of mulch and I've had to push a lot of the seeds down.

We dug up a lot of sunflowers and black eyed susans that we gave away yesterday so there is more room in the garden.
I bought 7 bags of top soil and 7 bags of manure and two bags of potting soil. All but one bag of potting soil has been distributed through the yard. I think the last bag will go next to the rain barrel in the front of the house.

I planted impatients along the front of the porch where we used to have bushes. I need to get a few more of those.

Besides pumpkin and I would like to get some Brussels Sprouts and I think I will have a pretty full garden.

There are lots of volunteer tomato plants that I don't know if I'm going to do anything about those.
I have potatoes coming up.

Planted one yellow tomato. Six Roma, two celebrity and a grape and sweet 100 tomato so I hope we get lots of tomatoes.

Planted like 8 pepper plants and one jalepeno. Four broccoli plants and four or six cucumber plants.

The two back box gardens will still have room for summer crops.

Garden Update 6-April-15

Cleared away leaves from the area where asparagus was planted. One little spear about 2 inches out of the ground!

Peas are up in lots of places - should probably attempt to plant a few more.

Some things are growing in the greenhouse, but just a few radish and maybe some other things. I sprinkled beet and spinach seeds in there on Friday but didn't even cover them with soil. Today I watered and tried to push them in a little.

I torn down the compost pile and rebuilt it today. I love to see how much decomposes. I could identify mango seeds, avocado peels and seeds, peach pits, corn cobs and egg shells in the bottom food and a half or so...above that there was a lot more that was recognizable, but it's decomposing.

I rebuilt is hopefully with some better layers and I put four buckets of water on it. Mom was telling me how much water it needs, though the middle of my pile was pretty wet but the outside was very dry.

Daffodils and wood hyacinth look lovely next to the drive way.