Time to get the garden started. It has been soooo nice outside lately. The temperature has even got up into the 50's! But we're in Spokane, so it's nowhere close to time to put plants into the ground. Around here, the rule is to wait until the leaves on a tree are the size of a "squirrel's ear" or the snow has melted off the top of Mt. Spokane, or until Mother's Day... That's about 2 months away. Waaaaaah!!!! All I want to do is dig in our new garden, put in our lawn, plant our HOA mandated tree in the front yard and build the fence.... Since we can't do ANY of those things for a few weeks, I stopped by the Wal-Mart in Airway Heights (the nearest shopping to Medical Lake), and picked up some starter stuff. I got a "Jiffy" greenhouse dome with peat pots for starting plants, organic starter potting soil and some seeds. I wanted to get all organic seeds, but I didn't see everything I wanted in "organic". So I picked up a few packs of non-organic, but if I see them available in organic when I find the other veggies I'm looking for, I'll pick them up and start them a little later. Did I say organic?
Here are some pictures of our planting stuff....
I can't wait to have a salad fresh from the garden. We watched a show last weekend about growing "mesclun" a delicate mix of tasty lettuces. It will be so nice to step outside with a pair of scissors and come back in with a salad. I love salad, but it seems every time I buy a bag, I end up throwing half of it away. I'm also really excited about the beets. I need to look up how to turn them into "pickled beets".
My idea for the lavender is to transplant it when it becomes sizeable, into a planter box to put on the railing of the front porch. It will smell so nice and be really relaxing to sit out there with a cup of cofee in the morning, or with some tea before bed. I would really love to grow enough to be able to clip some to being inside. Ahhhh....
Some other veggies I'd like to grow:
My idea for the lavender is to transplant it when it becomes sizeable, into a planter box to put on the railing of the front porch. It will smell so nice and be really relaxing to sit out there with a cup of cofee in the morning, or with some tea before bed. I would really love to grow enough to be able to clip some to being inside. Ahhhh....
Some other veggies I'd like to grow:
- English or japanese cucumbers
- Bell pepper (green, red, yellow)
- Sweet peppers (like they sell at Costco)
- Green beans
- Butternut squash (for ravioli?)
- Roma tomatoes
- Cherry tomatoes (red and yellow/orange)
- Spinach
- Herbs (chives, cilantro, parsley, oregano, thyme, dill)
- Potatoes (fingerling, yukon gold, purple)
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