Fingers Crossed

On Sunday, I planted. I stuck pretty much with the plan: 2 eggplant, 2 cukes, 2 zucchini, 2 cherry tomato, 2 Roma tomato, 2 slicing (Rutgers) tomato, 2 sweet red pepper, 1 sweet orange pepper, green onions, and, of course, the not-yet-planted garlic.

Here is the herb corner:

Here is the scallion/garlic corner:

Here are the trellises for the cucumbers:

Here is the strawberry pot:

I love my vintage sprinkler!

Here's a full view of the veggie garden!

It was a beautiful day. It was great to just be outside, doing something that I really wanted to do. I achieved two goals...planting my first veggie garden, and getting my new boots dirty!

Even though I had to come inside to do my planning for school the next week, it was so cool to be able to look just outside my office window, and see my new little world.

I hope I still feel like that in a month or two! ;)

Start Anew

On Saturday, I went shopping for new seedlings. Before I went, I searched online to find out how to locate non-GMO seedlings. I found a list of Seminis/Monsanto home-garden vegetable varieties, and made sure the seedlings I bought were not on the list. I had to try three places before finding the eggplant. I also bought strawberries, and some herbs, which were not on the original plan.

I turned the compost to get it ready to start adding to it again. STS helped me add fertilizer and compost to the soil.

We decided to wait on the fence to see if we really need it.

First Fail

Wow. A lot has happened...or not...over the past month. None of the seedlings that I planted from seed, made it. Probably about 3 weeks ago, I decided to try hardening them off, and they died in the process. I'm not sure what happened. Many of the seedlings were scraggly. I think it might have been insufficient lighting. If I try by seed again next year, I will start later, and get a longer light fixture. As you can see from the picture below, they didn't look very healthy to begin with. Here are the seedlings right before I began the process of hardening them off.