stitch n bitch!

Ladies,

Stitch n Bitch is back in session. Hope to see you all on Wednesday at the Uptown Espresso. Call me, leave a comment or email if you need a ride.

Kathy

Gardening Update

Well I've started harvesting the lettuce from my garden! Here a few pictures of everything growing from seed.





In this bed I have leeks, spinach, watermelon radishes , three types of beets, red onions, tomatoes, peas, and asparagus.




This is the bed that is filled my lettuce starts that I purchased, so Paul and I wouldn't have to wait so long to start enjoying our garden. I'm anxiously waiting for the broccoli to be ready for harvest. I planted broccoli and waited to long and discovered that broccoli plants have pretty yellow flowers. Not this year...


In this fabulous bed I have lettuce, spinach, Easter egg radishes, three types of beans, okra, brussels sprouts, and lettuce....

Stitch n Bitch this week....

Hi ladies,

I will not be joining you on Wednesday for Stitch n Bitch. My mom and I will be enjoying the California sunshine while we are visiting my brother and his wife.

Garden Starts

When Paul and I got back from Vegas, I was excited to see that some of the seeds I had planted has sprouted.




My starts that I purchased at Magnolia Garden Center


My tomato starts. Right now I'm taking a small risk planting them a little early. But I tent the boxes each night to tuck all the plants in for bed. I'm trying a different method of planting this year. Square foot gardening. So we will see how things turn out.



Spinach, Easter Egg radishes, and beets.

Las Vegas

Just wanted to take a minute to post a video of the watershow Paul and I saw on our trip to Vegas this week.

Stitch n Bitch will be back on schedule for next week. See you all on Wednesday at the Uptown Espresso in Belltown. Call, Email or leave a comment if you would like a ride.

Viva Las Vegas

Paul and I will be enjoying a couple of days in Las Vegas next week....Stitch n Bitch is canceled for May 6, 2009. We will be meeting again on May 13, 2009. Let me know if you need a ride or would like to come to our meetings, by leaving a comment.

Garden 2009 Update!

It seems like I have been waiting for a really long time to get my garden started this year. Back in February, my husband, Paul built me three boxes for my square foot garden. Here are all three boxes set up with trellis'.

As a wedding present Paul's mom gave a gift certificate to Magnolia Garden center. I've been saving it since September so that I could buy our garden starts, pictured below. Three types of lettuce, one tomato plant (not pictured), two types of onions, leeks, broccoli, one raspberry plant and one blueberry bush.

One of the three boxes planted with lettuce, onions, and broccoli.

I'm experimenting with my tomato plants. I'm going to try the vine method of growing, my squarefoot gardening book said to cut off all the branches on my tomato starts and plant the tomato plant horizontally with just the tip sticking out of the soil. Pictured above are the left over branches waiting for roots to grow.

My amazing husband, put together this fabulous drip watering system for my boxes. He used our old soaker house and a regular garden house and some connected them all. There is a section of regular hose going between each box with just the soakers in the boxes.

I need to include some cute pictures of my four legged children. I couldn't get Samanth to smile for the camera, though. Jasper knew just what to do and looked right into the camera and smiled.