1. what’s growing?

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    tomato seedlings

    enfant tomatoes enfant tomatoes enfant tomatoes enfant tomatoes

    plant carrier i made with a beer carton rose leafing out future rosespinach peas lava beans common blue violet

     


  2. furniture i made for the garden out of recycled pallet

    cold frame made from recycled pallet wood

    this is a coldframe for seed starting

    mini-raised bed for carrots

    we have tons of rocks in our soil so this is for carrots so they can grow into that nice carroty shape we all know. we put a mixture of sand and soil (purchased, not from the garden)

     


  3. this is whats growing now, inside and outside of the potager

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    lady beetles redcurrant lilacs snowdrops violets stinging nettle tulips raspberry lupin fava beans

     


  4. time for seedlings

    seeding time!!! lots of yogurt pots of dirt potting medium in the house

     


  5. getting started

    trying to do as much by seed as possible

    (tomatoes)

    baby tomatos   baby tomatos

    our ‘land’

    view from above        season opener

    what’s pushing now the Alliums ( onions (A. cepa), leeks (A. ampeloprasum), and herbs garlic (A. sativum) and chives (A. schoenoprasum)

    garlic leeks that won't grow chives

    some peas came up too, eggshells to keep the snails and slugs away

    peas

    parsley was purchased from a local farmer

    parsley