Jodi’s Week 11

I have had a crazy last few weeks what with winning a national championship in hockey and all but i have managed to keep up with my gardening.  Just haven’t had much chance to post.  So here is the status. 
GARDEN UPDATE 
Growing Outside
Garlic (planted 3/10, shoots are about 6 inches tall!)
Peas (planted 4/7, first sprouts [...]

Jodi’s Week 7

Growing Outside
Garlic - Waiting for sprouts to appear 
Growing Inside - Individual Pots
Broccoli - 2 plants growing in individual pots
Transplants Done This Week
Cherry tomatoes - 5 of 5 seeds sprouted in vermiculite, transplanted best one to individual pot
Roma tomatoes - 3 of 3 seeds sprouted in vermiculite, transplanted best one to individual pot
Early girl tomatoes - 5 of [...]

Jodi’s Week 6

I’ve got my cute little indoor greenhouse set up and my plants seem to enjoy it. I don’t have a great sunny location in my house so I try to rotate the greenhouse so my plants don’t lean to the sunshine too badly. It would probably help to get some lights, but it’s [...]

Jodi’s Week 5

In the garden:
I got ambitious with prepping my gardens this week.  I supplemented my compost-filled beds with some peat moss and vermiculite and filled in the remaining space with fresh compost.  Pulled some weeds out of the garden and my surrounding paver stones.
Planning to start some garlic outdoors this week.  Timing on garlic is weird [...]

Jodi’s Week 4 (getting started)

In reading through the MySquareFootGarden blog I realized that I was missing out on the opportunity to get started on my plants! I was waiting until the magic “6 weeks before the last frost date” to get started, but through reading the post I figured out that anything that can be planted 4-6 weeks before [...]