Home grown broccoli harvested from our organi raised garden bed

Broccoli harvest, March 2011

Just harvested our home grown broccoli, which turned out to be a little over one pound!

Warm weather is here!

With the temps hitting near 90 already, the hard freeze seems like a distant memory now. Everything is starting to bloom and the new seedlings of all the wild flowers we've thrown are starting to emerge like a filed of grass...we may have thrown toomuch seed, lol, but you can never have too many wild flowers!

Indoor seed starting update 2 weeks after planting seeds - 14 days later...

Broccoli has started to show in the raised garden

The broccoli is growing in very nice in the smaller of the two raised gardens. Pictures to follow as soon as the weather warms up, lol

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.

Our first flower on the pea plants!

Flower on our pea plant!

Jan. 21st, 2011

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.

Picture of our first potato growing!

So check out our very firt potato growing in our garden!

I planted this a few weeks back just to see what would happen...well it grew :)

I'm looking forward to planting some more potatoes very soon. I was able to locate some pototes called Yukon Gold and another potato that I can't recall the name at this time but, was a really cool purple color. I have heard great things about the Yukon Gold potatoes.