My little bedroom window plant nursery....

Earlier this spring I tried planting seeds directly into my p-patch with mixed results.  My lettuce seeds did not come up at all.  I think part of the reason was that my seeds were really old - more than the recommended three years.  Once I reached that realization I decided to try my seeds at home in the egg crates.  After thinking about it for a month and then intending to actually plant the seeds for about a month...I finally did!

My bedroom window has excellent sun exposure and it is out of reach of tiny helping hands (aka my daughter Madeleine).

One more step toward growing all my of salad greens for the summer and fall.

All of my salad starts

 

Arugula starts planted 6/11/13

Cut and come again lettuce - blackseeded sampson Heirloom seeds

Cut and come again lettuce - oakleaf lettuce blend

basil blend - I'm going to plant these starts in a strawberry pot.

Red Kale Starts

White Kale starts started just 6 days ago.  Look at Red Kale started 11days before.

 

One more step toward growing all of our salad greens for at least the summer and fall if not year round.

Garden update

It's been awhile since I posted an update on the p-patch garden. Tuesday I found 13 tomato starts on the free table at my P-Patch garden!  Wednesday I got up early so I could run down to the garden and plant them before everyone else in house was awake for day.

 

Garden bed with lettuce, peas, carrots and cawliflower

Tomato bed after my plants had been trenched and trellised

One of my cold frame boxes sans cold frame lid.  Right now it has zuccini and beans growing in it.

More P-patch photos

Paul finished putting two raised garden boxes together for me.

The first garden box is completed

The whole family had been feeling under the weather for several weeks. Hence our progress at the p-patch has been a little slow. The weather was good this morning so Paul loaded up our recycled wood in the truck and we headed down to the garden.

P-patch update

This an indirect p-patch update. Paul and I are reclaiming our patio at home which means we have some garden boxes that need to go away. Today we moved all the dirt out of our boxes and disassembled said boxes. I have some herbs ready to be transplanted in the new p-patch.

Paul did most of the heavy work today. I just dug the dirt out of the boxes. He disassembled the boxes,moved the dirt, and pressure washed the patio.

Apparently Paul was invisible to our neighbors because according to them I did all the work.

P-Patch Update

Paul, Madeleine and spent a cool morning in our patch garden clearing more weeds. Paul has successfully cleared the "quack" grass from among our raspberry bushes that we inherited from the previous gardener.

Phase two starts next where we start transplanting plants from our garden at home so we can clear out the raised beds and recycle them in the p-patch. Our patio will become a play area and outdoor dining area once all the plants are in their new homes.

Here are picks from today.

P-patch progress report

Paul, Madeleine and I spent a little bit of time down at our community garden this morning. Pulling more weeds, transplanting the onions that seem to be running wild in our little patch of earth, and of course adding to the compost and turning it.