I figured I'd start trying to stick to a few days a week where I would post about something following a certain theme. My working idea right now is that if I post on the following days, they will be these themes:
Sunday Funday: Anything fun that I've done recently or anything involving any of my hobbies
What's the Tea Tuesday: Talk about a yummy tea
WIP Wednesday: Any crafts that I am currently working on (there are many...)
Finish Friday: Any crafts that I have finished (full projects or sections of an SAL)
My goal is that this will motivate me to work on different projects, share my nerdiness, and continue to give myself an expressive outlet!
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So as the title of this post says...today is Sunday Funday and while most of America will be talking about the Super Bowl, I will be introducing you all to a rather new hobby that me and my daughter have picked up - gardening!
Shortly after my daughter came home from the hospital, she mentioned to me that she would really like to plant some seeds and even rattled off a whole list of vegetables that she wanted to grow. I found this funny because she doesn't even like to eat any vegetables but the idea excited her and my husband and I decided to go ahead an indulge her. My daughter and I had so much fun that it ended up sort of exploding and we now have a bunch of plants that we are tending to.
I should mention that I usually do not have a green thumb at all BUT I am determined to make this work as best as I can. We planted several things last year but it was late in the season and we were not that successful but the one thing my daughter was proudest of was her very teeny tiny watermelon that she grew for her Daddy.
My daughter holding her tiny sugar baby watermelon in November 2020
This year, I wanted to attempt to do this right by planting at the more accurate times of year. Right now we have a tomato plant that survived from last year and are attempting to grow basil, yellow onions, sweet peppers, jalapenos, cilantro, butter crunch lettuce, green onions, Thai basil, chives, cat grass, recao/culantro (which hasn't been doing good no matter what I do), blue cornflowers, 2 lemon trees, and 2 quenepa/Spanish lime trees. Everything, except for the tomatoes and 4 trees, were started from seeds on January 7th this year. Then today we planted 2 little pots of broccoli raab!
I like to track their progress each month with photos so be sure to check back in March to see how they do!