Crazy Time!

I am frantically trying to get my gardening act together. I really do more than one person can handle while raising a bunch of kids. I get myself frustrated every year, but I wouldn’t want it any other way.
Sunday my husband put up shelves so I can move the flats out of my plant room into the natural light. They will do so much better now.
I cleaned out the right bed, tilled the dirt and planted tomatoes on the far end with jalapenos. There are cucumbers along the back and some garlic in the corner next to the blue barrel. I still need to figure out something for the middle front.

The left side is all tomatoes. The pots are the daylilies that will go around my upper pond.

The center bed has cantaloupe at the far end (we still need to put up a trellis) and some bell peppers. I have to figure out what to put in the rest of the bed.

Cucumbers and the rocks mark the garlic rows. My husband is bringing me some paint stir sticks to make labels. The dirt is holding at 60* and up to 66* today.

Here are nine jalapeno plants.

The cantaloupe on the end and 15 bell peppers. I have a lot more pepper plants, but can’t decide if I should plant them or grow something else. I think a guy only needs so many peppers.

I have flats full of flower starts that need transplanted plus 401 things that need taken care of around my home. I love gardening. I anticipate it all year long. April and May are my two stress-filled months getting it all going while school is winding down and sports are starting up. Throw in some drama with my kids and I'm usually taking two steps back rather than forward. Hopefully tomorrow will be a more productive day.

Quick Update

Lovin' my petunias!!  I hope I can move them out to a greenhouse soon.  The artificial lighting is really holding them back.  I noticed that two weeks ago mine were the same size as the greenhouses and now their plants are 3 times the size of mine with flowers!

Peppers gone wild!! I sure hope these produce a lot and I can freeze them for all winter.  Our peppers are $2 a piece in the store so I never buy them. (Red, yellow and orange are $2.50 each).

Lots of marigolds started.  Never as big as I would like them to be at this late stage, but it will all work out.

The zucchini is ready to get out of the house as well.

Lots of Dianthus to repot.

This cucumber is ready to climb!  We have everything to finish the roof and sides of the greenhouse, but have had high winds the last couple of days and can't work on it.  It's getting very frustrating.

The tomatoes out grew the shelving a long time ago and I moved them over by the windows.

I have a lot more going on inside and out, but wanted to give a quick update since it has been so long.  I'll see if I can get more photos today.

I'm attempting to grow barely fodder for Daisy and the chickens. It's definitely a learning process.  I think the answer is to soak the seeds for a couple days instead of one so I'll try that next.  This is a Day 6 photo and this morning it is quite a bit thicker.  It's supposed to be an 8 day growing cycle.  I'll be able to feed it, but I really would have liked there to be more greens.