Baby Dreams

//Week 51//

Gardening Week 3

I was out of town for a week and my lovely husband baby-sat the plantlings for me. He did an incredible job and I came home to this--

Every single one of the plants have sprouted, and those tiny babies from week 1? Wowiw-wow-wow!--

Zucchini-ville, here we come! Today I took all of these little guys out onto the porch for a couple hours to begin "hardening" them to the outside weather. After about a week of increasing the time they spend outside, I am going to transplant them to the garden. From there, the hardest work should be over and I will just keep waiting and watering. I am so excited and Forrest is getting into it, too! Today we went to the store and got 15 more bags of soil and filled the garden up a tad more, just to be sure there was enough. Next week's update should be a lovely first peek at the outside garden box. Stay tuned!

Moo's Week

Playing in the backyard with Moo the afternoon we flew in.

//Week49//

Baba enjoyed sitting in the yard with you. I think it was the only way he could keep you from getting scooped up by Moo.

//Week 50//

Gardening Week 1

I decided to make a post each week about my rookie year at true vegetable gardening: seeds to kitchen! I had been working for a while on finishing my huge, 16x8 foot garden box and filling it with dirt, and now that my seeds have come in the planting phase has begun. I planted seeds for Jalapenos,
Cocozelle Zucchini, Sweet Spanish Onion, Sugar Baby Watermelon, Cherokee Purple Tomato, and Brandywine Tomato.

The layout is:

 W W     CT CT     O O

W W     CT CT     O O

W W      BT BT     O O

Z  Z       BT BT      P P

Z  Z       BT BT      P P

Z  Z      BT BT      P P

I am keeping a lamp over them to give them light and also to keep them warm. From what I have researched, warmth is especially important for sprouting jalapenos. Once they have sprouted well, I will "harden" them by leaving the tray outdoors for a few hours a day, and then finally transplant them (cardboard egg-pod and all) into the big garden! The only other plan I have for the garden box is to plant a blackberry bush, but I will purchase that one already grown up. If I seem to have more room once these are planted I will sprout another set and have two harvests! Yum yum yum. Next Monday I will skip because I will be out of town but after that, weekly photos! 

*crosses fingers*

Granmunner

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We went to visit Granmunner today. You had the loveliest time playing with her necklaces all afternoon and we even made a good effort to let you pet the cows, but the horses intervened because they wanted to pet you instead. They did.