Our peas are up! Yay! Peas are hands down my favorite vegetable, especially fresh from the garden. I have been meaning to plant some every year for more years than I want to count, but work and kids have interfered with my plans… We finally got it done this year and about a dozen tiny plants sprouted yesterday. Yes, during the day yesterday… I watered the place where we had planted the seeds in the morning and Lala came running in yelling that the peas were up while I was making dinner. I’m so excited!
Tomatoes and Peppers
We have tomato plants! 4 Early Girl and 2 Better Boy… The Anaheim Peppers aren’t up yet, though they were planted at the same time. As my mom says, “peppers are sloooowwwww…” I am looking forward to salsa season!
5 Sweet 100s are up too… Mic and the kids are crazy for cherry tomatoes! I don’t know about peat pots though… I seem to always have issues when I start seeds in any sort of peat starter… This year I put some of the tomatoes in regular pots and some in peat… The ones in pots are doing better… Hmmm…
Bean Seeds
The bean seeds are sprouting too! Two of them are showing cute green growth…
Look at the roots on that thing!
Herb Gardens
The little herb gardens are sprouting like crazy!
I can’t wait to pick their fragrant leaves and use them for cooking!
Egg Heads
The chives we planted in the plastic egg “egg heads” aren’t showing any signs of life… I’m concerned this project might not work out well…
Radishes In a Bag
Another ‘experiment’ we started several weeks ago is growing radish seeds in a bag… I got the idea from an exhibit at the homeschool conference we attended last summer… It’s pretty simple, requiring a resealable bag, wet paper towel, and seeds. I did this project with the co-op gardening class. We started our seeds at home on March 9th. We have had them taped to the top of our sliding glass door (to keep them out of little grabby hands…). We haven’t added any water or done anything with them… They haven’t grown much in a couple of weeks and were starting to look slightly yellow, so we decided to get them planted in some dirt. Here is what they looked like before we planted them yesterday…
It was a little tricky to get them out of the bag….
We planted all three plants together in one pot…
We ended up cutting the paper towel and planting each plant with the piece of towel it had sprouted into…
We had to make the planting holes as deep as we could because the plants had fairly long tap roots…
Planting the largest radish…
Second largest…
The third one was fairly small…
Hopefully they will take the transplant to the soil well and we will have a few radishes to eat!
We are really enjoying our gardening adventures! I think this week we will try to get some more seeds planted, weed at least part of the flower beds, and see if we can get some flowers to plant. I see a trip to Home Depot in my future… Likely associated with the free Kids Workshop they have the first Saturday of every month. This month’s project is: Learn How to Build a Picket Fence Photo Frame. Want more info? Check out their website: Home Depot Kids Workshops. (Link will open in a new tab.)
Digging in the dirt is bringing our dreams to life!
We also got a few tomato and pepper seeds started in the kitchen. Tomatoes (for salsa) are a main priority in our home! The store-bought ones will do in a pinch, but just aren’t the same as the ones you can get… vine-ripened… warm from the sun… straight from the garden…