Garden watch: fruits

Not much to report, it's been rain rain raining all the time lately. Monday we had some sunshine so I moved the strawberry plants I had in a pot over to the official gardening area. It was a long overdue move judging by number of plants I got.

A could of weeks ago I impulsively picked up a blueberry bush, do that's in the ground too. I've also got a raspberry plant (bush?) in a container- that's getting rather unwieldy and, as it turns out raspberry bushes are covered in crazy spikes, so I'm not quite sure what I am going to do with that, but for now it looks like its getting some fruit! So that's exciting.

Hopefully the sun peeks out of the clouds and the veggies start peeking out of the dirt!

The seeds are in!!

Well that was a challenge. The smallest helper quite hated gardening. Especially since the blanket I picked was too small & she fell on her face in the dirt. Poor kid. Lucky for everyone, uncle Matt was home & came out to keep Ruby Rubes company.

Cece helped me dig some holes & plant all the seeds. Should be interesting to see where carrots grow besides the rows ;). I'm also thinking I might get some short fencing to make it clearer where the garden is.

We didn't quite follow my carefully measured map, so perhaps the fencing would have been a good place to start. ;). It's pretty close though, and it's promising to be damp for the next few days at least, so I'm cautiously optimistic we might get some plants!!

Intentions. I have them.

We ARE planting a small veggie garden this year. And I hope to blog about it. Since this blog is frequently neglected despite my intentions.

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So 2 weeks ago Cece & I started our peas, watermelons & zucchini seeds in little starter thingies.

Last weekend we had a friends & family flash mob help us renovate the back yard. Conveniently the weather was weird this week & ce & I didn't get to plant our seeds in the ground because it's gone down to freezing this weekend!

The only things that sprouted, anyways, were the peas. And I lost the carrots. So today at lowes we bought some more seeds. Monday we'll get our dig on and hope for better luck.

I made the trellis out of some extra chain link fence that I spray painted. Some of it chipped off putting it all together, but hopefully it holds up to the peas. :).

I'm also working on some signs, but that is slow going with small helpers.

So that's that- I hope to be posting pictures of our gardens progress a lot this spring & summer!!