I enjoy growing my own celery, but never had luck
with doing it directly from seeds. Every
fall, I cut the ends off of the organic celery bought from the health food
store, and place the ends in a small dish of water on my kitchen window sill to
grow roots.
When spring comes along, I take that rooted celery
end and plant it in my garden. I
usually will end up with somewhere between 2 – 5 growing plants. As my celery grows, I go out to the garden
and cut what I need. This way it
continues to grow new stalks.
Speaking of stalks, look at this onion stalk; it’s
grown substantially, compared to when I first planted the onion. This will be the first year I planted a large
quantity of onions; with hopes of using them throughout 2015 and into 2016 once
harvested.
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| When I first received the onion starts. |
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| A stalk on just one of my onions planted. |
Here’s an update on my potatoes, which were planted
on February 7, 2015.
This is what my
Yukon Gold potatoes look like as of today’s date.
I've planted cucumbers seeds in two large pots and placed
them next to a feedlot panel to use as a trellis.
Since planting my cucumbers seeds in pots last year worked well, I did the same thing this year. It really helps contain them so they’re not
growing all over the garden bed.
This is the first year I decided to plant red
cabbage. I picked up 4 seedlings at the
local Atwood Ranch store. I tilled an
area by hand, since our tiller is still on the blink, and lined the small bed
with bricks.
On the back side of the cabbage garden bed, I
planted two types of sunflower seeds to line the fence. Hopefully, we will see Sunspot and Mammoth
sunflowers soon.
My strawberry patch has started producing strawberries,
I look forward to harvest strawberries this year to make jam……YUM!!!!
Since spring has sprung, I've cut our grass at least
7 times. Each and every time we brush
off the tractor, and hook the water hose to the deck to clean off grass.
When the grass is wet while cutting it, it
has a tendency to bulk up under the deck and around the blades requiring a
detailed cleaning. If you don’t clean
out the deck, the grass just sits on the underside of the tractor and starts to
rot, causing a terrible smell.
We
purchased a special jack for lawn tractors to aid in cleaning the tractor, and
Bulldog Man scraped and pressure cleaned the entire tractor.
What a great tool to have to make lawn tractor
cleaning so much easier!!!!
Last night we placed, out on the back patio, two
hummingbird feeders with sugar water in preparation for those beautiful
hummingbirds passing through.
Tell me; have you see a hummingbird yet in your
area?
