#Gardening

An update on the tiny garden :-)

The tiny plants are seedlings, planted on or after the 16th of March:

Spinach, Radish, Salad, two tiny tomatoe and Cilantro plants, the Dill wants to come butisn't sure and to the left two Texas Bluebonnets are popping through. 

The salad in the back is still from the ones that survived my neglect in Dec/Jan 

I also succumbed and got onion plants, instead of trying to go by seed. 

Already harvested some of the greens for salad ;-)

#Gardening - Testing my options

The really good thing about the place we rented: It has a sun room.

So, lacking a green house or hot bed, I'll see if I can get stuff to grow in here. 

Some of the store bought plants are already   doing well, flowers as well as herbs. 

Today I planted quite a few heritage seeds from 'The Seed guy'

- Sweet Spanish Onions x 4

(green Onions would have been better, but I Don't have any)

-Bloomsdale Spinach x 4

- Scarlet Nantes Carrot x 3

- Red Cored Chanteney Carrot x 3

- Ruby red swiss chard x 2

- Morris heading Collards x 3

- Snowball Cauliflower x 4

- Arugula x 4

- Siberian Kale x 2

- Bok Choy Cabbage x 3

Those are planted in an egg carton, egg shells on bottom for nutrition, watered and seeds set with a giant tooth pick thingy, protected with an old water bottle

for what will hopefully give me some hit house effect.

Heritage seeds Planted in clay pots:

- Italian giant parsley x 10

- Parris Island Romaine lettuce x 10

- Leisure Coriander x 5

The clay pots are by the way sponsored by 'Canadian gardens'!

They took petty on me and gave me a bunch of Clay and plastic pots they didn't need to more,

when I went shopping there a short while back - Thanks guys!

Watered and covered with recycled plastic bags. 

Also planted:

2 x store bought organic garlic

6 x store bought lemon seeds

And also one of my store bought (non-organic) garlics has started sprouting last week

#365 - Settling in

Bought a poor neglected outside chair the other day at the thrift shop.
Just a little help and it's almost new :-)

Finally found some herbs and did a little 'starter' garden.

Some heritage seeds are on their way for a real garden :-)

I put a potato in there, see if it will give me a starter potato

And after a days work, time for some knitting and a beer on my new chair, waiting for someone to do the BBQ :-)

Enjoying the sunset

While the dogs would prefer to play ;-)

#365 - Balcony as of 10th of April

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#365 - Butterfly pit stop

When I saw all the butterflies sucking on my Burlap bags this morning (don't know why they love them)

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I remembered something from a butterfly garden near my home town.
And started a little butterfly pit stop :-)
They seem to love it.

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Also, my 'garden' without the cover, more to come ;-)

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And an experiment with the bottom of an onion - roots in water,
3 -5 days later, green sprouting from the top.
Now, I only got to get this stuff into some ground, lazy me ;-)

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Happy gardening ;-)!

#365 - My garden

The garden is growing, but needs serious protection from early morning on.
It's freakin' baking out there!

Also got more plant earth, recycled some seeds, hoping that they might grow into
something edible, worth a try ;-)
Also salvaged big and small flower pots, discarded by whomever.
Oh, that thing in the front is a discarded car sun screen. Have two of those by now.
One for the plants and one for me :)
And the shelf is a discarded pallet from one of the construction sites :)

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#Homesteading and more - some free ebooks

A small collection of free - at the time of posting, please double check before buying - ebooks about Homesteading and related topics.
I have not checked or read them all, so please don't shoot me, if they are crap ;-) If you find one, that's not free any more, please let me know. If you have one, that can be added to the list, dito :-)

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Canning

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