Punxsutawney Phil should be poached

Spring comes when?

Observations about the trays

Burpee -
-- love the planting medium. easy to get started. easy to to move medium around from one to the other if necessary.
-- don't like the lid. it lips to the outside and therefore drips to the outside. hard to water without disturbing the seeds

Jiffy -
-- likes -- easy to water without disturbing the medium. preferable lid as it drains to the inside
-- not so likes. the medium was labor intensive as you have to cut each planter. the condensation on the lid is odd. a middle 1/4th is not condensating like the rest. odd. just plain odd.

the seeds have started

We started planting seeds today.





The top tray has onions, eggplant, and beefsteak tomatoes.
















The bottom has broccoli and peppers and room for more seeds! Which of course means a trip to the garden center tomorrow. Oh darn my bad luck. LOL



















All seeds planted today were courtesy of the Home Depot in Papillion. Trays are Burpee(top) and Jiffy (bottom) Seeds are all Burpee brand because Jim is too impatient to wait for the SSE order to get here. We bought organic for what we could (tomatoes, peppers, and some scallions and herbs we haven't started). The others were conventional. So much for our 100% organic plan for this season.

But hey! We have seeds started!

Catalogs

Seed catalogs. Gotta love em! They remind you that it won't always be this cold. In fact, someday it might even be warm and sunny. Seed catalogs let you dream a little. Hope a little. Plan a little. They just generally make you feel good.

But in the meantime, the garden looks a little white. But eventually the snow will melt. And that will water the ground that was so dry before it froze in November.

But seed catalogs are the promise of new beginnings and the bountiful harvest yet to come.

With Silver Bells and Cockle Shells

Gardening isn't just a way of life, it's a way to live.

When I bought our house in July 2007, I bought a yard that just happened to come with a house. I fell in love with the gardens and the flowers and the possibilities of the property before I'd ever even stepped foot in the house. I think the house could have been the biggest fixer upper on the planet and I still would have bought it. Because I bought the possibilities. But the house is just as perfect as the yard.

With this online journal, I plan to document the adventures in gardening through the year. I need it for myself. You can follow along if you want to.

Oh the possibilities. It's the way I want to live.