Today's Pictures

The baby tomatoes and Peppers










The baby cucumbers and squash.

Well, so far it's going well. Most of the babies are out from the front room under the lights, to either the greenhouse or the garden. The lettuce and spinach are still too small to come out and hopefully the rest that is ready to plant will get out soon. It's been too hot still, but yesterday and today were very nice for being outside.

I'm still having problems finding the best watering system, but I'm still working on it. The soaker hoses under the mulch work, but it takes far too long to get everything watered. I've still got a lot to work to do with this, but it's coming along great.

The kids are getting big

Well, here it is 11:45 p.m. on Friday night and I've been planting all night. Yep, the desktop gardening again. Kenny says I should just move the planting bench inside instead of planting on my desk, but this works and I just wipe up the leftovers.

Tomorrow morning I will get up and start turning over the soil in the boxes outside. I have fresh soil to add to them and the sprinklers to put under the mulch so that I do not have to top water this time. Last week-end the squash all went out to the greenhouse already, it was getting too big for the lights. It will go right into the ground tomorrow. I hope to build the trellis for the sugar peas and the cucumbers in the morning, but we'll see how far I get.

Here are some pictures of the nursery tonight, before many of the babies go to the greenhouse in the a.m. Not sure if some will go directly to the boxes or just stop at the greenhouse, we'll see tomorrow.

As soon as I get some of the nursery cleared out I have more that I want to get planted since some of the seeds didn't take. I have a new system for watering in the nursery that I'm experimenting with. Kenny made me the tray underneath the cups so I can just put water in the tray and let the water seep up through the holes in the bottom of the cups. I'm hoping this works well, too soon to tell.

Will take more pictures tomorrow when I'm done in the garden.

Been planting the fields all day

Well, it's about time. I finally got the fall garden planted. It's still hot as anything, but it had to get done so that when it does cool down it will be ready. I planted tomatoes, peppers, yellow squash, zucchini, sugar snap peas, cucumbers, green beans, spinach, romaine lettuce and butternut squash. I ran out of soil so in a few days I still need to plant the wax beans and a few more green beans. Radishes will go directly into the boxes when it's time.

Haven't decided what to do with the Earth Box, and I need to build another raised bed for what I have planted and maybe another for melons. The melons are a maybe. It feels good to have it done finally and now the fun begins. I've been waiting for Sept to come so I could plant.

Now, it's off to do lesson plans for the week so I have something to teach the kiddies without winging it. Maybe the computers in my room will be up and I can move on with my program, otherwise, we will just have to make due. Ah, technology, what would we do without it, and what will when it's not working. :)

Another experiment

Kenny thought I had lost my mind when he saw me outside in my jammies talking to myself. He didn't realize I had the camera. Poor guy.

What a day today

Wow, waiting for a long week-end and then it rains all day. Off and on, but still the whole day. We were supposed to go to a party tomorrow but now, with the rain, it's been cancelled. That's really ok anyway, I can use the quiet.

Work has been nuts. The kids are great but the pace is faster than NASCAR during the chase. It's ok in the morning but then at noon when lunch is over it's non-stop until 4. That does make the day go fast, but I don't feel like I even see the kids individually at all. I'm sure it will all settle down soon. We will get into a routine and things won't be so new and more time will avail itself.