Gardening!!!
Tuesday, April 13th, 2010I have aspirations to garden, but there is a LOT to learn!!! I finally got my beautiful raised beds filled with fruits and veggies this weekend! I ordered strawberry plants from an online company, and they arrived Wednesday. They looked so pitiful, just plants and roots rubber-banded together. I was a little skeptical but I cut off the roots at three inches and planted as instructed, and now more than half of them look like actual plants! With leaves, and green stuff!!! It’s so exciting!! Then on Sunday I went to Billie’s house. Billie is Jen’s mother in law, and she has her own greenhouse and was willing to start the seeds that Jen and I ordered and happily shared her own with me! It’s so exciting! I planted two tomatillos, two basil plants, five tomatoes, six squash, and eight peppers (jalapeno and ancho) I took a whole flat of squash, and was then informed by my mother that six would feed the entire neighborhood all summer… so I just planted six. We’ll see, I hope to can things if I get a good harvest!!!
In more exciting news, some things I planted in the fall are coming up!!! I have actual peaches! Ok, I have teeny tiny green fuzzy things showing up on my trees, but I feel sure they are peaches and will be peach colored eventually! And, there are blossoms on my blueberry plants! So exciting!
Also, my iris bulbs have put up leaves. I’m not sure if they’ll bloom this spring, but surely by the fall! I have finally gotten confirmation that the cute fuzzy leaves I’ve been seeing in my flower beds are indeed larkspur, and my Mom identified another leaf as a hollyhock!
I’m really enjoying all this fun in the garden! Maybe next year I’ll understand it better so I can plan first instead of doing it in such a haphazard fashion. Mom keeps telling me that I’m putting stuff too close together or too close to the house… not taking into account the fact that it will grow bigger than the teeny tiny plant it is now =) I’ll learn someday I guess!! Mom taught me how to prune my crepe myrtle today. It’s actually pretty fun. I need a saw for the bigger branches though =)