We combed through Lowes, Home Depot, K-Mart and even our local grocery stores to find some more seeds to plant. The choices are slim. I couldn't find any bok choi or japanese eggplant seeds, so this catalog from John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds arrived in the mail today.
I ended up ordering one packet each of: gonzales baby cabbage, baby pakchoi (bok choi), brandywine tomatoes, and sweet broadleaf basil.
I'm looking forward to some tasty stir-fry and summer sandwiches!
I am so amazed at how quickly these squash seedlings are growing. These are now 7 days old. We've had to remove them from the covered tray and put them into their own small tray.
They reach towards the direction of the sunlight. (My hubby likes to rotate the tray as you can see here and the following morning the squash seedlings will be pointing towards the window).
The picture below is taken at our computer/study room on the 2nd floor. We've filled it with lots of books still waiting for us to read. This is where I blog or catch up with my emails, or do my work from home (when I've had to take work home).
It's a north facing room which catches less sun during the day than our sunny backyard does, so we elected to paint it tropical orange to brighten it up during gloomy winters.
I love to watch the sky change colors and fade into dusk from this window...
Just 4 days ago we planted lettuce, squash and tomato seeds and placed the peat pot container by the window in our [unused] workout room to take advantage of indirect lighting.
Here, witness the miracle of their sprouting:
Okay, so here is our weedy, forlorn backyard, as shown from various angles. These pictures were taken just this morning. Our plan is to kill the clover, dandelions and other patches of ugliness when we return from our trip in July. Then we'll til the soil and plant grass seed.
Pretty sad looking Yushino Cherry tree...all alone in the weeds...
As newbie vegetable gardeners, we've never used peat pots before, but they're supposed to reduce the amount of stress that seedlings undergo when transplanted into the garden. The roots grow through the sheath of peat (which is earth friendly).
To start out, we've planted two pots each of roma tomatoes, black seeded simpson lettuce, dixie hybrid yellow squash and later on in the summer we'll start the pumpkin seedlings so that we'll have jack l' lanterns and pumpkin pie in time for Halloween.
We are a husband and wife pair of hobbyist gardeners. The backyard is a sea of weeds at the moment. We concentrated on the front yard when first moving into our home nearly 3 years ago. But we're ready to plow through the back lawn and start choking off the dandelions, etc., in order to make way for a small vegetable garden and an assortment of spring, summer and fall blooming flowers.
View of the walkway in front of our home. An unimaginative row of tulips...
Another view of the tulips as they bloomed last month along our front yard walk way...
Can you see the wisteria surrounded by pansies at the edge of our lawn?
