After lusting away at the Baker Creek heirloom seed catalog for a few weeks, sending in a ridiculously large order and plotting the garden away on paper, I finally got some seeds started! There is still snow on the ground here on the prairie, but somehow it just doesn't seem quite so cold when there are trays of tiny little seed babies basking in the glow of an old fluorescent light. And away we go!
The hardest part so far has been keeping Calla out of the seed trays. Here she is trying to "water" them with her morning juice.
We are edging the garden with wine bottles. Our hope is that little ferns will eventually start to grow up into the bottles, and that little birdies will drink from the divots on the base of them. I'm trying to re-use as many things as I can. I had to buy the rabbit fencing and it is only about half-buried so far. It's been a challenge to come up with enough lumbar (or re-bar?) for future trellesing. I'm hoping freecycle will be my friend in this regard! Adam and Dad did not have fun tilling this... Partially because it was virgin sod. Partially because maybe wifey jumped the gun a little bit and the ground was still somewhat frozen.... maybe.
We have 5 cabbage sprouts so far (those sprouted in less than 12 hours!) but that's all. Once some seedlings have 3 or 4 true leaves, we'll transplant into yogurt cups I've been saving all winter. My garage looks like a giant trash heap of wine bottles waiting to have the labels peeled off, yogurt cups, formula and tin cans and scraps of wood I've gleaned from here and there. Dear Hubs has been such a good sport as I attempt to make this suburban split level into a formidable homestead. The laundry room closet has been turned into a pantry and wine closet. Fingers crossed that he'll let me take over the basement closet as a mini-root cellar!
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