The First Melon!

For those of you who don't get that, its from Ice Age, or rather the 'last melon' is from Ice Age. Anyway! The point remains that I am in awe and have become quite jolly! I produce before you! The first planted pots of 2011!


Very exciting, VERY exciting indeed! Mom produced me with some dirt. I would have bought it myself, but as we are all well aware,... I'm cheap. Plus I forgot that I could acquire some from my friendly neighborhood garden providers. They have a mountain of dirt that currently has no home or plant to cover until I get the remaining leaves cleaned out of the area.

Speaking of them by the way, I mentioned to mom that perhaps since she's going through yard withdrawal as well, that I'm sure she'd be welcomed to join me on a weekend to bring the Emma-pie and let her play whilst she aids me in the garden. They are such wonderful people those Morton's. I honestly want to repay them by making what I think will be a grand garden for them. I think she wants to plant an actual garden with potatoes, which is something I would love to do, but in order to do that I think we'd have to find a different plot. The current plot providers aren't into growing root veggies I think.




Nice and tall those sunflowers are. I wish they'd hold off just a wee bit longer, I have to wait another two weeks before they go into the ground and all. I would prefer if they'd get more stocky rather than taller, but they are already growing a second pair of leaves! Those in the middle there are the cumin, looking very nice and healthy. They didn't make it into the pot today. Only the basil managed that feat, though I did plant, in that short snubby pot, some chives! I new attempt. Anyway, the little ones are the strawberries, finally getting on their way. They are three where they once were only two and I'm so pleased. The poor man's weather glass, they are doing alright but I still need some research done on those. Make sure they aren't climbers.

Alls looking great people! Can't wait to keep a weather eye on the horizon for those baby chives (Nicky has some accidental ones in her garden, lol), and get this garden off to a better start than spring is!

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Garden Bunny

So Many

Oh its glorious my friends! The Bellflowers! The Bellflowers have sprouted. They are sooo tiny, and they are so incredibly small that I barely was capable of taking their picture, but I wanted to document their greatness. There's so many. I was so worried about the little guys that they weren't going to sprout, but I never expected them to be so small considering they are suppose to get about 12 inches tall. They are of course for the garden plot, not for the house, but still very exciting.

Anyway after the discovery this morning that the bellflowers had sprouted I went about checking on all the happy little babies and low and behold! Both the basil and the poor man's weather glass have grown the same height and look at them!

It has been such a wonderful Saturday. Apart from the bigness of all this, I just realized that the sunflowers, awesomely huge as they are, the roots are all puffy and fuzzy. Very neat.

Making an Appearance is...

That's right, the basil!

I'm so proud of them. Of the six seed pellets so far, 4 have peeked forth from the dirt. I'm so happy to see them. They are so tiny! I had not a clue that they'd be this much smaller than the other kinds of basil I have grown, but they are miniatures. The Poor Man's Weather Glasses are somewhat poking from the dirt as well, but I can't yet focus the camera on them since they are so wee as well. But on the other hand, look at THIS! This fellow has reared his ugly head and said HELLO!!!! Lovely sunflowers, I just can't wait until they are strong enough and I've tended their space enough to plant them. Very, VERY exciting.

Speaking of the planting place ^^ I purchased some garden gloves finally so yanking up the defiant beast of a thorny bush can be removed. As well as buying some bulbs! I though about it a bit and decided that I'm gonna use the large rocks in the garden as separators! Kind of? Its a theory. But I got dahlias for the spot and we'll see how they turn out. Very exciting people, this week looks great!

First Day of Spring!!

Its awe inspiring! It's amazing! It's... SUPER SEED! It's almost like having my very own present for the first day right? I mean its so huge and strong looking. This one is a sunflower. One of TWO sunflowers that have popped forth from their tray. I'm so proud. I try really hard every year to put myself down and tell myself my first sprouts are no way going to actually sprout so that when they do, BAM! I'm all excited, but somehow, I had an inkling about this group of seeds. I mean they are as excited to get into the ground as I am to put them there!

Speaking of, I took a before picture of the garden spot that was so wonderfully provided to me, tada! A perfect spot if I do say so myself! I have already pulled those whitish yellow reed things. I had aid from the most adorable little gardeners. Sarah, Jonathan, and Emma. Sarah was more interested in the spiky plant that I couldn't get out of the ground without first getting myself some garden gloves, but I think it was because it was the only plant I wouldn't let her fiddle with. Jonathan and Emma preferred the leaf raking part. It looks nicer now, but next is the huge rock removal.

Very VERY! Exciting.

Oh and then of course, as of yesterday we began the next step of our gardening. The house plants. First it was to farm and fleet to gather some peat pellet replacements, the the window box after it was all arranged. That of course was the planning phase, but the other side of the box was arranged like thus, from left to right: Spice Basil, Cumin, Poor Man's Weather Glass, and Strawberries! That's right I tried out the cumin. Mom thinks its best to do only the herbs right now. She claims its too early yet for flowers and that they might get wind shock. Not that they are going out of doors, but you know. Anyway! That was my exciting first day of spring, how was yours?!

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The Happy Tine!