Gardening: An Early Start On Your Seeds

If you are like me and have seeds leftover from the past few years. Or harvested your seeds, then now is a good time to start the new year off with organizing them. I have done well with keeping my seeds dry and in a dark place.But they are so unorganized. I have them all in their packets or even envelopes. At least I have them labeled.

I started off with going through them and seeing if I had empty packets of seeds I needed to get for this year. I had some zucchini and tomatoes. I put those on my list. Then I went through my seeds that I had and wrote all of them down. Now having the list in front of you makes it much easier to plan out what you would like to plant for the spring season.

Being I am not living in Florida at the time I also had to look up the growing season here in New York. My garden will have to be planted accordingly.

Here are a few things I will be planting in the spring:

Lettuce
Radish
Arugula
Spinach
Carrots
Beets

I have some more ideas but I will be going to the store closer to spring to see what they have. I feel I am getting off to a good start this year with being organized. We have alot of compost which I will be using to start the seeds in last year like the tomatoes and green peppers. They grew so fast. I have a bigger section now to work with which was full of overgrown weeds last year.

How is everyone else getting themselves organized for their gardens?

Latest Garden Update

Another week has passed and things have really taken off in our garden! We did lose a few plants. One of our potatoes had the early stages of blight. So we burned the leaf growth and harvested the potatoes. Sad to say there was only 4 red potatoes. But luckily they were ok and I had those for breakfast with some eggs. They were really tasty.
When it rains we have a bad run off of water in the garden. We haven't been able to replace some of the gutters so I have had to dig a trench so the water will go in a different direction. With that said we lost our two Brandy Wine tomato plants but never fear I had replacements. I made sure I had a few extra of each.
We have already harvested some turnip greens and have been adding them in rice dishes. It's almost like eating spinach. We can't wait till things finally start to produce so I can bring you some great cooking videos.

Things have also been a little tough this month what with work slowing down. Hopefully things will pick up.And please dont forget to subscribe to our youtube channel. We have already hit 102 subscribers! We are hoping when we get to 500 to do a giveaway. Come help us get to that goal!

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April 13th 2013 Garden Update

Our weekly garden update. As you can see things are growing right along. We are getting temps in the 80s during the day and 50s at night. At least one full day of rain a week. We are still having a problem with corn so I planted 6 corn plants in a plastic tote so the "pest" doesn't eat the tender young leaves. So far it hasn't touched anything else. This week inside I planted June bearing strawberries, bibb lettuce, spinach, collards, cabbage, brussel sprouts, broccoli, parsley, and sunflowers.
Today I started a big old pot of blackeyed peas which I do have a recipe for and this time I used a smoked ham bone.
Outside I planted 4 green bell pepper plants, 2 eggplants and one brandywine tomato. I will plant the rest in a few days till I see how these take. So far so good. Okra is next.

Thanks for everyone who has been subscribing to our youtube channel. We are almost at 100 subs. When we get to 500 I will see about having a giveaway. I was thinking maybe fall seeds to grow in your garden. I might throw in some spices too.

Our Garden Update April 2013

This year we have a new outlook on life. We have set a few goals and we are going to try and accomplish them. First and foremost is eating healthier. Of course eating healthier usually costs more than what we would normally buy on a limited budget. So we decided to take another stab at growing our own organic garden.

 As you can see things are looking pretty good. We spent very little on getting started. A wonderful person in our lives donated the seeds and we couldn't be happier. ( Remember to always play if forward with kindness) Most of the material we found. We bought a few bags of manure and worked that in the soil a few weeks before we started planting. I have compost but just started it so it won't be ready to work into the soil till the end of the year.
Growing your own food is so rewarding. I can hardly wait to make the first harvest! There will be recipes and DIY on gardening and some other things we will be throwing in. If you would like to follow the garden progress please subscribe to our youtube channel for weekly garden updates and future recipes!