Winter Garden Week Three

The gardening blogs are going to be rather uneventful for the next couple weeks I think. Nothing is sprouting just yet. There is not any real work to be done until something greeny starts popping out. Does anyone have any advice how to alleviate the tedium of waiting?

I was gifted with a few more seed pockets this week though. Thank you so much, Max! So, now I am pleased to announce, the victory garden will have spinach, oregano, chives, eggplant, and African daisies! This is all so very exciting and it makes me even less patient!

I did find out that while it is very convenient to water the garden from the kitchen sink spray nozzle, I will have to do some major soaking every now and again with the outdoor hose or the reserve water in the shed.

Maybe next week there will be some action to report. Until then I will continue to take my umbrella out in the moonlight and dance around the garden fence with my invisible garden gnomes!

Winter Yard and Garden Week Two

Suggestions were taken books were read, and seeds were obtained, planting has begun!

The garden soil had a week to settle a bit before rooting about in it to plant. I am so super thrilled by the uncommonly temperate weather Arizona is having; it makes it much easier to attempt gardening especially since in the past I have had very little luck with plants. That is all going to change this year though! This garden is going to be marvelous!

Okay, honestly, I have been so lax on getting to this project I am very concerned about the seeds I bought over a year ago. Will they even germinate? If they do I should have cabbage, arugula and Brussel sprouts in a few weeks. If they don’t well, it was a good shot and I will buy more seeds, fresh seeds, to try again.

I am attempting potatoes on a whim too. We had some store bought taters in a bag at the bag of the pantry at they started to sprout eyes and look more than a little unappetizing. I considered tossing the dead spuds in the compost with so many other gooified vegetation, but thought, why not give it a go! So, I cut the potatoes into sections to give each of the eyes something to grow on and buried each piece. I have no idea if this is going to work, but at worst, I will have potato rot to fuel the soil and it didn’t cost any more than letting the spuds go bad.

Most important lessons of the day; barefoot is the only way to wander a fresh garden, (Soil feels so good between the toes!) and it is so convenient to have the garden just outside the kitchen window closest to the sink. I can water with the spray attachment instead of dragging out the garden hose!

While I am waiting for veggies to sprout; suggestions on how to make this more fun and less tedious?