Meet the garden!

Hi! This is my blog about gardening and animals. Right now, all we have is a garden, but look for updates about fish, and eventually a cow and a mini horse. I am definitely not an expert on any of these things, so expect lots of learning experiences!

Spring is here! Everything is growing, and so is my garden. Really, we haven’t actually planted anything outside yet, except in some small planters, but we have lots of sprouts inside.

The first pictures I took:

Some more recent ones:

Planter 1:

Kale

Kale

Pepper

Pepper

Lettuce*

Lettuce*

Cucumber

Cucumber

Kale

Kale

Pepper

Pepper

Lettuce*

Lettuce*

Cucumber**

Cucumber**

*In the later pictures, the lettuce has been moved to an outdoor planter. Now there is kale there.

**We planted lettuce there but nothing happened. Now it has cucumber seeds.

Planter 2:

Broccoli

Broccoli

Cucumber

Lettuce

Marigold

Marigold

(Swiss) Chard

Chard

Broccoli

Broccoli

Cucumber

Lettuce

Marigold

Marigold

Chard

Chard

These are some of the plants we have moved outdoors.

 Lettuce Kale

They live under a grow light on a timer. It turns off at midnight and on again in the morning.

Soon they will be planted in raised beds in this garden area.

We need to build the raised beds soon or our plants will end up being too big for their pots and die. A possibility is that we could plant some of the kale indoors and eat “baby kale” instead of larger leaves from outdoors, though this will probably not happen. (Note: We had to cut some of the plants to allow the stronger ones space, since we planted more than one seed per “pot”. We did eat those. J)

Next time: Fish!

 

Hannah