Let's get this party started!!!!

Over the last few days a number of new seedlings emerged! First we have some squash
I'm not sure whether it's the patty pan of the butternut but time will tell all!
A few of the cucumbers made show as well. Again I'm not sure whether it's the lemon of the green but here they are!!! You'll notice them in the tray on the right of the squash most of the tray hasn't sprouted yet.
The purple okra is doing wonderfully I going to have to thin them out soon which is super sad but necessary.
There are so far three green okra seedling to join their purple relatives!

And last but not least THE CORN AND MELON ARE HERE!!!!!!!!

I can't be more happy! They may not make it through the whole summer and i may not get any melons on the vine but I'm glad they at least spouted right in out backyard. The corn pictured is the red corn. The blue corn sprouted as well and there is another duo of melon sprouts.

Feeling Babylonian pt. 1

Hanging garden. Since I found out how upside down gardening works I have been obsessed!. Right Now Reed, Linda and I are trying to plan and build hanging pots for some seedlings we have in the mini green house. we are not going to pay 20 bucks each fro those topsy turvy things

we have about 12 of these buckets right now and I have been doing a few experiments in my down time. This is the first one...

You can tell from this angle but it's nailed to the banister of the back porch
it's growing quite nicely too! The next one looks super janky from afar. It's hanging on a clothesline buy some black yarn.

but check out the close up

both of these plants will be transferred to another bucket soon as the other plants are ready. Both are just tomatoes but we want to hang squash, pole beans, and cucumbers too!

Everyone loves PICTURES!!!

These are the purple okra sprouts! I at first thought that little weeds sprouting were okra but the these little guys popped up.Seedlings kinda all look the same until they get "true leaves" It's been super hot here recently it was 90 degrees or more the last few days. It doesn't seem too bad until you remember that it drops to -30 here in the winter. I guess the okra likes it more than i do. There are about 10-20 plants right now and we'll see if more come up today


The broccoli seems to like the climate the best right now. They are growing super tall in their partial shade spot in the garden



these guys weren't so lucky this box has all the seedlings we haven't planted or don't have room for. This broccoli isn't doing nearly as well. They may end up in the compost soon. The tomato plants are small but healthy maybe we'll use them for
hanging soon. All the little purple plants are Kohlrabi. I'm hoping give a lot of them away to Kai soon.


Sunflower sprout!!!! just noticed them today! there are about three right now let's hope we get to 10 soon!

There is still nothing from most of the seeds planted but it's just barely over a week and somethings need time I'm hoping for something new everyday for a bit.

Background

So some friends of mine suggested we grow a small garden. Jason and Reed being way more on top of things then I ever am started tomato, basil, broccoli, Kohlrabi, and Oregano seedlings in the green house. The oregano didn't make it but everything else is thriving right now.

Since I have the tendency to get more then a bit carried away i purchase 6 more packs of seeds and was gifted more after inquiring to everyone i knew who may have gardened. Now we are in the early days of a nice edible garden

the list is:

Tomato

Broccli

Kolrabi

Oregano

basil

sweet melon

sunflowers

blue corn

red corn

green beans

fiesta bean

pinto beans

butternut squash

patty pan squash

lemon cucumber

green cumber

lavender

purple okra

green okra

carrots

beets

swiss chard

lettuce

spinach

greens

onions

most things haven't made an appearence yet but I'll keep you posted!