garden 2010 & happy Spring!

The gardens are multiplying this year!  Grace decided she wanted to do a flower garden of her very own, so the beautiful Saturday (oh, how glad I am that this cold, rainy day is happening on a Monday, and not over the weekend) we dug out a 5 by 6 patch in the side yard.  This turned out to be quite funny.  When I told her where to stake it, I said to stake it out 'around the dogwood tree' and she literally did--the dogwood was right in the middle!  So I said 'no, I meant near the tree...here, move it closer to the porch, with the tree being the center point and mark off a few feet on each side', which somehow was again misinterpreted, ala Amelia Bedelia.  We were laughing. 

Rob also built me a real compost bin!  Which I'm so excited about.  And 2 more 4x8 raised beds.  That plus the edges all around that I'm going to also plant in means I'm more than doubling the vegetable gardens.

Yesterday we tucked tiny seeds into their little dirt beds and whispered 'grow, grow' and watered and set them up in the basement with their grow light.  We'll be anxiously awaiting them to come poking up.

This is what we planted indoors:

herbs:
basil
lime basil
sweet basil
english thyme

tomatoes:
green zebra
black krim
yellow pear
ace
paul robeson
green sausage

various:
brussels sprouts
mexican sour gherkin cucumbers
jelly melon kiwano

flowers:
love in a mist
verbena
snapdragons
celosia

This is what we'll sow outside:

flowers:
zinnia
sweet peas
cosmos

vegs:
spinach
scallions
beets
sugar snap peas
parsnips
carrots--muscade, tonda di parigi, royal chantenay, danvers

...will we have enough garden space???