Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gardening. Show all posts

Sunday, March 7, 2021

Sunday Funday #4 - Gardening!

Welcome to another addition to Sunday Funday! It also happens to be the 7th, which means I dedicate a portion of the morning to spending a little more time in the "garden" - giving the plants a little extra attention and repotting/transplanting plants or planting new seeds! So once again this post will be focusing on my daughter's little garden!

First up is the outside raised bed. The lettuce has grown very nicely since last month and believe it or not, we've actually harvested from it a couple times to have salads with dinner! It's been pretty neat to finally have something we can use from the garden! Behind the lettuce, on the closest side, we have green onions growing nicely and we planted some corn to see if we can get them to grow. On the far side, I transplanted the broccoli raab and planted a couple bush bean seeds. 


Next up are our trees which were repotted today! The blue and gray pots have the quenepa/Spanish lime trees and the purple and teal pots have the lemon trees. They usually live inside the patio but they are enjoying the beautiful weather we have outside right now.

                   
Lastly, our container plants in the patio! These have reaco/culantro (which still haven't done any better or worse since last time), basil, yellow onions, bell peppers, tomatoes (this plant looks like it's starting to give up but we'll see), jalapenos, cat grass, Thai basil, chives, poinsettia, and a succulent. Our cilantro and cornflowers died over the last month, so we replanted those and we also planted an avocado pit to see if we can get that to sprout and add to our tree collection!

recao / basil

yellow onion / bell peppers

jalapenos

tomatoes

poinsettia

cat grass

Thai basil / chives

cilantro restarted / succulent

cornflowers restarted

avocado seed planted

Happy Sunday everyone!

Sunday, February 7, 2021

Sunday Funday #1 - Gardening!

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!