Garden - Day 1

Day 1 (Sunday, March 27, 2011) of our garden begins.  We bought and planted seeds in an indoor gardening kit.  We planted:

• Carrots - Nantes Coreless
• Corn, Sweet - Early Sunglow Hybrid
• Peas - Alaska (wilt resistant)
• Pepper - Jalapeno M
• Tomato - Roma VF
• Pepper - Long Thin Cayenne
• Sunflowers - American giants
• Spruce (a while back we bought some "grow your own Christmas tree" kits from target for $1 a piece so we figure we might as well see what happens given room and a lid to prevent kitties from bothering them)

The indoor garden we used was a Jiffy planter that held 72 plants per tray with a lower tray for water collection and a clear lid (to prevent cats from ruining the plants).  We used one and a half trays to plant everything.  The planter when finished:

The peas are cold weather plant and can be seeded outside this time of year since they stop producing in the heat of summer so maybe we will plan to do that next year.

The indoor greenhouse plan is as follows:

We planned a 8'x12' garden in our yard by the shed.  It's the best place that is not in the way and that gets a good amount of sunlight.  The garden plan is as follows:

We have determined that the left corner of the garden (when facing it from the side of the fire pit) gets the least amount of sunlight so we might have to move the peas there so they don't get overwhelmed in the heat of summer.  We will see what the final plan is.  Stay tuned for our first seedling to burst through the soil.