Gardening Diary - February 18, 2017

It has been two weeks since I first planted a starter garden in pots and a reclaimed bed. The seed has germinated in all of the pots and beds and I haven't killed anything yet.

Pot 1

Pot 2 

Pot 3

Pot 4

Pot 5

Pot 6

Big Pot 1

A squirrel started digging into this pot, so I had to cover it with some fencing, too.

Big Pot 2

Bed 1

I had some leftover beet and dill seed from the planting I did two weeks ago and I found some old lettuce and pea seed, so I cleared this bed and planted them. The fencing will hopefully keep the dogs out and serve as a trellis for the peas.

Bed 2

This whole day started with some cleanup. This bed was completely overgrown and in the front of the house. I cleaned it out and transplanted some iris from another part of the yard and bought some pansies to add a little color. A little present for my bride.

Flower bed

Gardening Diary - February 5, 2017

The gardening bug has bit me again. I had to move some large pots away from the pool, so I decided to plant a few things in those pots. There are six pots, all used for a fall garden last year: 3 for eggplants, 1 for bell peppers, 1 for tomatoes and 1 for some aromatic plants that I had hoped would keep the mosquitoes away. I got plants and seeds that would generally complement each other and I placed them by the fence that runs along the northwest edge of our property.

Pot 1:

1. Kale
2. Red Cabbage
3. Carrots, seed
4. Dill, seed
5. Nasturtiums, seed

Pot 2:

1. Broccoli
2. Beets, seed
3. Cauliflower
4. Cilantro
5. Nasturtiums, seed
6. Carrots, seed

Pot 3 already had scented geranium growing in it, so I added carrots (seed) to it.

Pot 4 had the poorest soil of the bunch:

1. Cauliflower
2. Kale
3. Carrots, seed
4. Nasturtiums, seed

Pot 5:

1. Thyme
2. Red Cabbage
3. Kale
4. Nasturtiums, seed
5. Beets, seed

Pot 6:

1. Carrots, seed
2. Chives
3. Broccoli
4. Kale
5. Nasturtiums, seed

I had a number of plants leftover so I planted them in some large containers out behind the fence. They each included one kale plant, two red cabbage plants, two broccoli plants, two cauliflower plants, and a smattering of the seeds I still had leftover (nasturtiums, beet, carrot and dill).

 

Finally, I cleared an old overgrown bed and planted carrots, beet and dill - all from seed.

The wire fence is hopefully going to keep our backyard critters out of the bed.