Category Archives: Gardening

[thumb:526:l] [thumb:525:l] [newline] The plants are growing. The weather has been mostly rainy lately but today we had some sun breaks. Taking advantage of the nice weather I planted alpine strawberry seeds in a container inside as well as a couple of the rectangular planters outside. The strawberry planters are in the tabletop greenhouse. In […]

[thumb:522:l][thumb:523:l][newline] The first Earthbox has the Irish Cobbler. On the other side of the garlic the next has the Peanut fingerlings, and the next Earthbox has Red Norland and Chiefton. Once they start coming up we’ll add straw and start wrapping the cages to hold everything inside. It’ll be interesting to see how they do.

Our potatoes arrived yesterday from Ronniger Farm. We ordered a Patio Pack which includes four 1/2 lb packages of seed potatoes. [thumb:521:l][newline] For our Patio Pack we selected: Peanut Fingerlings Chieftons Irish Cobbler Red Norland I think I’ll get them planted soon and we’ll go get the straw in the next few days. We’re going […]

The Sun has come out today. I’m sure the plants are enjoying the warm weather. There are clouds but it’s been a pretty nice day. [thumb:516:l][thumb:517:l][thumb:518:l][thumb:519:l][newline] Next week we might be planting potatoes!

Today I assembled the tabletop greenhouse given to us by my folks. It’ll be nice for starting our plants this year. In previous years we’ve used plastic containers on the window sills but this should be much better. [thumb:511:l][newline] It is raining today, but when I went out to put the greenhouse on the porch […]

This morning I rearranged the porch garden, removed the bench, firewood and cleaned it up. We also moved some of the small planters into our Radio Flyer red wagon. [thumb:498:l][thumb:494:l][newline] The days have been warmer and the weather has been warmer. The plants all seem to be doing well. [thumb:497:l][thumb:496:l][thumb:495:l][newline] In the process of cleaning […]