Never thought I’d be one of those homesteading gardeners…but here I am killing it! LOL
In all seriousness though, there is always more to learn, but I am SO EXCITED!!! I have sprouts coming up!! If you read the back of a seed packet, it will say “This seed takes XX days to germinate”…well I DON’T CARE! I was out there almost every day checking to see if anything was poking through the dirt yet. And, finally they have! 🙂
All of the seeds that I sewed directly into the garden have started coming up. Like a mom with a new child, here is a bunch of pics of my new “garden babies”…
There is also some new growth visible on the onion starts that were planted.
Here is where the “I still have room to learn” comes in…. I’ve said it before, I have not had a lot of success starting my seeds in the house and then transplanting them outside. I tried again this year, and I will keep trying until I get it right.
Here are some of the seeds that I started in the house. I’ve been trying to strengthen the stems by blowing a fan on them and rubbing my hands across them, and I’ve also positioned a light very close to the sprouts so they aren’t reaching for light… But we will see what happens. I’m pretty sure that my brussel sprouts are a lost cause, so I may just direct sew them out in the garden. I’ve done this once before and had some success with it, but it takes so much longer for them to be ready in the fall.
I still have a couple other seeds to get started, like corn and green beans, but those will be coming soon. We need to get the rest of the rows put in our garden addition, and the fear of frost to go away, and then we will be able to plant the rest.
Then, we sit back….relax….tend….and let God do his work, and we should have quite the bounty in fall!!!
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