And so it has begun!

The seeds finally arrived. I am so excited. It's funny, I am happy just to hold the packages and look at them. So fun! Not only that, but a friend of mine gave me 25 strawberry plants. I am going to grow the strawberries in a hanging planter. I read online how to go about that. I'll blog and make pictures of the hanging planters when I get that going!

So on Monday, mom and I started all of our seeds. Ideally, I should have started these earlier in the month. But it is what it is. I started Salsa Tomatoes, I believe they are like Roma's. Husband and I love salsa, so we look forward to seeing how these taste. Mother started, Big Mama's and hybrid seedless tomatoes. In addition to the tomatoes, I started TONS of peppers. I am nervous about the peppers because they don't grow well in our gardens for whatever reason. We'll see. I am going to try to plant some of the peppers in planters to see if the growth improves. All in all, we started over 100 plants. YIKES! Currently, all of the seeds are hanging out in the greenhouse. I look forward to seeing sprouts next week! How exciting!


Hopefully by the weekend Husband will till the rows. Mother needs to get the broccoli plants into the ground. I am also going to plant the lettuce seeds. In the meantime, I am trying to figure out the best places for starting my pumpkins. Pumpkins spread so much, I have to be very thoughtful of this. I have a couple trellis' that will hold the Baby Boo pumpkins and the small gourds.


And what kind of mom would I be if I didn't get my kids interested in gardening.? Last year they loved watching their pumpkins and sunflowers grow. They already love the "farm life," so I am anticipating they will be little gardeners as toddlers! Here are some pictures of them at our local library planting zinnias. Also, Publix has a toddler program you can sign up for coupons and whatnot, so of course I signed up. But they did something so cool this spring. They send out little flower seed strips. We got these planted on Saturday and already we have a sprout! So fun!