Expanding the garden for more organic plants

Recently I expanded the garden area by our pepper plants and grapevines. I think it created another 40 feet of growing space. I dug down about 18" and back filled with home made compost, alfalfa hay, bone meal, blood meal as well as native soil. I also added corn meal to feed the beneficial microbes in the soil.

I now have three different varieties of potatoes, many shallots, onions, garlic, two types of green beans, herbs, carrots, snap peas and a few other that I can't remember right now.

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Starting seeds indoors with fluorescent lights for transplant into raise...

Fresh picked thyme from the raised garden in Arizona

Up close image of some fresh thyme we picked about a week ago or so.

2 days after starting seeds! Take a look at the germination



My indoor seed starting trays and plant markers

Here you can see some of the seeds I used in my seed starting trays.

For  my plant name labels I used paint stir sticks that I broke.

Seeds ready to germinate under a 4 foot flourescent light ballast. I have one warm and one cool bulb that come on for 18 hours.

Here is how I broke the paint stir sticks to use as my plant name markers.

Seed packets and what the seeds look like that go into your garden

I recently startedplanting seeds indoors to get ready for the spring growing season here in Arizona. I thought I would post some  pictures showing what the seeds actually look like inside the packets.

The indoor seeds starting trays are doing great!

I have to admitt I'm surprised at how fast the seeds have germinated. Everything is filling in nicly, except the cilantro. The cilantro hasonly produced 1 sprout so far. It's only been about 5 days,so they still have a lot of time to do their thing.

I hope to post some images I took on day's 1 & 2.