Lord Cat's Garden

Saturday, July 16, 2011

Things to remember...

I'm trying new things each year, but I need to remember what I've learned for next year so that I can benefit from the experience!

Things for Fall!

Old Pumpkins go in the Pumpkin Patch ONLY!
Keep Rotten Tomatoes in Wild Tomato Patch
Plan and start preparing garden layout

Things for Late Winter!

Sunflowers and Pumpkins get rockwool/sponge

Need to add fertalizer to water

Everything else gets soil

Mix 'seed starter' with coconut

Sunflowers and Beans need fans
Grow more seedlings!

2-3 times as many seedlings as I need
New planting every 1-2 weeks

Things for Spring!

Use Outdoor Sun as soon as possible

Outside during warm days
Lights during cold days
Inside at night

Tie up with sticks early

Leave slack for wind/movement

Wednesday, June 8, 2011

Sunflowers and Roses

Sunflowers are the first seedlings out and growing! And the rose bush already lives there!


Starting to bloom!

More on the way

Roses!

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

They grow up so fast!

The seedlings always seem to take forever to sprout, but once they do, they grow up so fast!


Seedlings on 02/27

Seedlings on 03/15

Sunflowers Today! (and a Tomato)

Bush Beans!

Sunday, March 20, 2011

Digging out the garden is a lot of work, but the soil isn't going to dig itself so somebody's gotta do it! This year's garden is much bigger than last year's, so lots more digging to do! And I'm putting a grass path down the center of the old garden, so lots of grass to transplant!


Digging has begun! The old garden is in the center, and I've already begun to build the path. In the upper right you can see where I've been digging, and where the grass came from. On the right hand side, from top to bottom, you can see the Tomatoe Patch being dug, above the Watermelon/Sunflower patch and then a strip for the Marigolds next to the patio.

You start by digging a hole. Place some compost in the hole (I'm using last year's leaves). Fill the hole with dirt from digging a hole next to it.

Repeat until done!

Then plan where everything goes!

More garden patches to prepare!

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Last year's garden

Before we start looking at this year's garden, let's take a moment to look back at last year's garden and see where some of our seeds came from; this year we're planting seeds from the Sunflowers and Pumpkins that we grew last year!