Archive for February, 2007

Onion Experiment

February 28, 2007 at 4:08 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged

In Organic Gardening Magazine, I read an article about planting the ends of green onions in dirt. They had a really neat picture of the white parts of the onions in potting soil and another picture of the same onions all grown and ready to use. I decided to give it a try. We made a layered bean dip the other night and I asked my fiancee to save the bottoms of the green onions. The article suggest using loamy soil but I just stuck it in the same soil I have an avocado pit in (the avocado pit will take a while to root so why not). I assumed it would take a while but to my surprise, the next morning, it already had some growth to it! Take a gander:

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More seed starting…

February 28, 2007 at 4:04 pm · Filed under Gardening ·Tagged

Seeds I started yesterday are:

  • Kung pao peppers
  • Onions while lisbon bunching
  • Impatiens
  • Egg plant black beauty
  • Marigold-French and Safari mix
  • Chamomile
  • Catnip
  • Echinacea pullido
  • Nicotiana
  • Larkspur
  • Sweet William

I hope I have enough garden space for all this! I don’t mind a crowded garden! This year, I don’t want to see any dirt! LOL 🙂

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It’s Official, I’m Addicted to Seed Starting

February 27, 2007 at 7:26 am · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged

This is my first official year of seed starting! Last year, I started seeds a little late in the year but I promised myself that I would start earlier this year. Yesterday, I planted some long thin cayenne peppers. Those will be super spicy. I’m planting them for my dad for father’s day. He loves spicy foods and I hope this plant will produce a lot of peppers for him to eat!!!

Tomorrow, I have the day off so I’ll start some more seeds! I’m going to start Kung Pao Peppers today and I’ll give my dad those plants too. He’ll have a variety of peppers to choose from! I also plan on starting the following:

  • Kung Pao Peppers
  • Onions White Lisbon Bunching
  • Impatens
  • Eggplant Black Beauty
  • Marigold Safari mix and dwarf mixed
  • Chamomile
  • Catnip
  • Echinacea
  • Nicotiana (white)
  • Larkspur
  • Sweet William

I’m so glad I got enough peat pellets from Wally world. I got several boxes of Jiffy-7, 72 peat pellets in each box. It ended up costing me around $.05 per peat pellet! What a deal!

I’m also going to finish packing the seeds for my trade with quartney from yougrowgirl.

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Package from Thompson and Morgan

February 24, 2007 at 7:34 pm · Filed under Uncategorized ·Tagged

I got my Thompson and Morgan package today! I bought 12 transplant pots and 4 water wizards (for watering). I got all of this for only $4.00 (the cost of shipping). Here’s a picture of the contents:

I already screwed the wizards onto the 2-liter bottles to make sure it fits and it does! I also got some free seeds for ordering too. I received some ornamental corn and echium seeds (don’t have the slightest idea what this is) for free too!

I also started some more tomato and pepper seeds last night. I was planning on giving out a few to my coworkers as a kind gesture. Here’s what I planted last night:

  • Pepperocini Peppers
  • Spicy Peppers
  • Sweet 100 Tomato
  • Patio Hybrid Tomato
  • Tiny Tim Tomato
  • Roma Tomato

The weather has been up and down lately: one day it’s sunny and the other day it’s raining. I guess that’s a sign of spring. Only 1 month before the last frost date! I can’t wait for the frost date to come.

Regardless, I’m still gardening outside. I have some cool season vegetables outside: peas, chard, radishes, lettuces, onions and garlic, etc and some of my bulbs I planted in the fall are sprouting and blooming already (who knew!).

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Garden Organization

February 23, 2007 at 1:59 am · Filed under Gardening ·Tagged

Tuesday was a gardening clean-up/organization day. I filled all my containers with dirt just to ensure that I had enough soil for all my containers. Lo and behold, I didn’t have enough. I’ll be trekking to Lowes in the next couple of days to get more soil. Sigh…This year I’m using a potting soil called, “Gardener’s Potting Soil”. It looks and feels great! I hope it’ll perform this year. I also got their compost too. Great stuff!

I’m attempting to have a container garden this year since I might be moving to an upstairs apartment in which I won’t have any land to garden with but instead a balcony. I hope everything I attempt to grow in containers will be successful. I bought these watering caps that screw onto 2 liter pop bottles from Thompson and Morgan so I hope they’ll maintain the water consistency in my soil. Fingers crossed!

The weatherman predicted rain for this week so I wanted to have everything clean and tidy and sheltered for the rain.

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