Put up strawberry bags yesterday. It will take a while to find the right place. Also tomato seeds starting to sprout

BioDome Post - The Reason For The Season

Here it is the long awaited post.  (Notice the two rows in the back without popsicle sticks - the kids were still working on those).  Anyway, I got pumped when my garden planner told me it was time to start sowing some tomato seeds.  We are doing 7 different varieties (listed in earlier post).  There are 60 spaces in this thing so I filled it up with tomoatos - 6 of everthing - 18 of better boys and 12 of early girls.  In hindsite I wish I would have done 12 better boys and then 12 sweet 100s.    Anyway this is the best part of the garden and its getting started. 

Alright - I lied the biodome post is coming next not this one. I was two popsicle sticks short for the labels.  The kids were bouncing in the trampoline and it was pretty cold but I did convince them to eat a couple fruit bars so I could get the sticks.  It didn't seem to spoil their dinner.  Mia ate like a bird as always, cole had two bowls of fried rice and a bowl of miso soup that I made. 

First in the ground.

First in the ground are the green onions.  They grew for 3 weeks in the greenhouse and were ready to be planted in the shaded garden.  14 of them went in.  The candy onions are not quite ready to go in - I did transplant them into some growing pots to make room in the biodome (next post on that).

I also put lettice (and it looks like Park Seed didn't send one of the seeds I ordered) and spinich into growing pots.  The greenhouse mom gave me is starting to fill up.    Boxwoods are doing well in there.

Blooms Gone

I was right.  One little cold snap and the pomegranate blooms went right back into hiding - sort of like the ground hog.

Trouble with Post Hole Diggers

Was doing work in the garden this weekend and noticed that I got lucky.  In the spot where I was going ot anchor the compost bin I found some orange marks - cable lines.  Don't think Suzanne would have been very happy if I cut it again.  Glad I sent the post hole digger back to dad. 

Buds

The pomegranite bushes in the front are already starting to show some new growth.  With the weather being so eratic this winter - I don't know if this is too early or not - but both plants look healthy.