Thursday, April 17, 2008

New Sprouts!


If you look really carefully down in the bottom right corner you can see the little tomato sprout that is growing. My camera (or maybe me) is not very good at taking pictures that close up.















My lettuce is also growing and it is so exciting!

















Here are the beans that were growing the last time I posted. Look how big they are! They sure are growing fast.










Hooray! My peppers finally sprouted. That's a little pepper sprout you see in the picture. Now I am just waiting on carrots and cucumbers.

Monday, April 14, 2008

Oh boy! Bean sprouts!!!!!


I am so excited about these little buggers... This morning all but the Roc'Dor (who came up yesterday) were still under the dirt. Now I have plants!!!!

Pictures of Everything!


Here is my little garden.












These plants have been around for a while. The center one is some sort of aloe I got at the grocery store and does very well. The other two are lemons and I planted them from lemon seeds from a lemon I ate. They are also doing very well, given I have sometimes forgotten to water them for weeks at a time.








These are the herbs I am growing; thyme, cilantro, and chives. The thyme is not doing so well...



















This is my basil. It seems to be doing well so far. Let's hope I can keep this one alive longer than the last one.


















Last but not least...
This little guy sprouted on Saturday! I could see the others poking up under the soil, too, but wasn't able to get a good picture of them.



The other pots are planted also, but I am assuming you dont want to look at photos of dirt. I'll post their pics when they sprout!

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

Beginnings

I want a garden. I want fresh veggies. I have a huge windowsill. I am taking up windowsill farming. It's an experiment, so we'll see what happens. I ordered a bunch of seeds from conatinerseeds.com, picked some up from my local hardware store, and got some pots and soil. I spent Sunday morning potting plants and making my windowsill lovely. I now have 4 types of beans, pepper, tomato, basil, thyme, cilantro, chives, nasturtium, 3 lemon plants (that I planted about 6 months ago using seeds I got out of a lemon), and an aloe plant.
This is my second go at herbs in this windowsill, they all started dying last summer when I was out of town for two weeks and I never brought them back to life. I planted them about 2 weeks ago, and they have all sprouted.
I picked up some additional soil this afternoon on my way home from work so I can plant carrots and cucumbers. I also picked up some lettuce seeds, and I figure I'll plant those in one of the lemon's pots (who needs THREE lemon trees?). Once I've got those in the ground all that is left is waiting and watering...