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Garden updates

We have flowers!!! The peas have darling little white flowers.

Strawberries also have TONS of blossoms and some berries again!

The tomato plants has it's "um yeah cute" yellow flowers.

And here are some pictures of the rest of the green stuff. My broccoli that was so pretty is now wilted yuck. No idea what happened or what to do. My radishes are getting HUGE leaves but no root. Again no idea. I did go get a different brand of seed and planted more. We shall see. My second planting of beans is towering over my first planting. Carrots are getting tall.

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Dinner update:

I light of yesterdays post I thought it only fitting we have rice for dinner. We had what we call Kielbasa rice. 4 cups cooked rice (I add a couple bullion cubes to this while cooking.) 2+/- cups of frozen veggies and 1 cooked kielbasa. Yummy!

Garden Update:

My beans came up finally!! 3 out of 8. sad but hoping for better luck with the next planting which I did this week.

My peas are getting SO big! They have even started little vines.

Everything else is just getting bigger and bigger.

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I got a garden, I got garden, I got garden!! How about you?!?!

Saturday James made his wife a very happy woman. He put in my garden!! Now we have way super crappy ground so...we opted for the raised bed Square Foot Gardening route. I begged for the book for Christmas and got it and now I am planting my little slice of heaven!!

So here are the pictures folks!

Okay so here is my super duper awesome hubby. One box down and one more to go!! I did not go for the 4x4 method. We did a 8x2 box. We added a trellis on the back for our vine plants.

Here you can see out neat little square foots all marked out. It looks so clean and orderly!

All planted for now. I will be adding in a few more plantings over the next two weeks to stagger my harvest.

In the back along the trellis we have 1 square of sugar snap peas (these are in late:( ), one square of cucumbers, one square of pole beans. Then a few open squares for later planting. Then one square of peppers (we will see how they do up here in WA), and two of beefsteak tomatoes (my fave!!). In the front row of the back box we have 2 squares of celery and one of fingerling carrots. The front box has 4 squares of broccoli starts, one of head lettuce, one of romaine lettuce, one square of radishes and one of strawberries (got to get more of those!). We also have a deeper planter for full size carrots that is more portable and not pictured.

For a simplified and easy read of SFG go here. It is a great PDF to get you info quickly and simply.

Whatever Wednesday Gardening part 1

Planning your Garden

As with most things in life we need to have a plan.

What we want to plant. Where and when we are planting it. Here is a great pdf that covers garden planning. Here is the link to the Farmer's Almanac. It gives a time frame for planting just insert your area code and off you go.I figure I will send you straight to the source on this one.

I am planning on Square Foot Gardening this year. James got me the book for Christmas. It was what I wanted. I am planning on getting my area ready this month and hope to be planting mid-late April. I can't wait to share pictures!! Here is a great intro to SFG.

Also container gardening is great for those of us who have limited yard space or live in apartments. Did you know you can plant beans, peas, tomatoes and other vine type plants in hanging baskets? Even herbs would be great this way.

Edible Landscaping. How about adding veggies and fruits into your already exciting landscape?

Happy planting!!!