Yesterday I spent half the day preparing 

seed trays for my Spring Garden!

Except for a few things I can't find seed for, 

I'm growing my own transplants

from heirloom and organic seed!  

I'll get transplants for the others.  Yay me!!  

Can't wait to see the little sprouts pop up!

This little tabletop greenhouse is holding corn!

Yes, corn!  Only 12.  I dunno where I will put it!

My dh assures me we will find a place!

Greenhouse Central!  Right off the dining room!

All those trays are mini incubators for seed!

Once they sprout, the lids will be removed!

Everything should be ready to put in the ground

by the first of March - after a little 

acclimation to the outdoors!

Yes! That's a storage container!  

Lot's of neat ideas like this on pinterest.com!!

Now, before it gets any chillier outside, 

I must bundle up and go cover my 

strawberries and fruit trees!

Stop by tomorrow for Let's Eat!  

I'll be linking up with

Flip Flops and Pearls 

again with recipe to share!

NOTE:  Let's Eat starts up again Jan 27th!
I'll still post my recipe tomorrow!!!

Garden Planning!

Within the next week I will get seeds (organic and heirloom varieties)

 in planting trays so they will be ready for transplanting first of March,

after the predicted last frost (end of February if Farmer's Almanac is right!).

Gonna set everything up in my little bump-out greenhouse off the dining room!

My goal is to try ever so hard to resist buying transplants and grow everything from seed.

The only thing I can think of (if I don't find seeds) would be Yummy Bells and a couple of herbs.

The hubs is gonna build me two more 4x4 raised bed frames and prepare the soil mix for me!

I'm hoping to get out of this boot soon - doc appt today.

But, there is a lot to do out there just to get ready. 

Planting season is two months away!

Canning season will be close behind!

1.  Plant seeds in flats (Don't forget to mark!).

2.  Clean up the fall garden and supplement with compost.

3.  Re-trellis the blackberries.

4.  Add a raspberry!

5.  Gather bamboo stakes (compliments of a neighboring bamboo wall)

6.  Build bamboo tee pees

7.  Relocate herbs and tender greens to partial shade.

8.  Configure a climbing apparatus for peas.

9.  Get transplants in ground

10. Sow some seeds directly.

11. Mark everything.

12. Journal everything.

13. Mulch everything

14. Don't forget the flowering stuff too!

15. Keep bird feeders filled!

16. Plant new Blood Orange Tree

17. Find a plum tree!

18. Look into espaliered apple and pear trees.

19. Fertilize fruit bearing trees

20. Trim hedges and overgrown stuff

.... it goes on and on ....