Planning the Garden

    I don't know about you, but I have already started planning out my garden. This is the time to start planting all those indoor plant seeds again. Tomatoes , eggplant, broccoli, cabbage, kale, carrots, celery, cauliflower, peppers some of the cool weather plants and squash, cucumbers, pumpkins, and such for the warmer weather if you plant by seed instead of plants. This year  I hope I can stay on top of the watering since last year it was so dry.

     I pulled up all the old dead plants to prepare my raised beds. I need to add some mulched leaves and such too, and more soil. Have lots of chicken manure to turn in too. My green house is filled with all my  house plants and trees that I have collected and grown over the years. 

    I started my tomato seeds, eggplants, cayenne peppers and my sons favorite, Brussel sprouts in single starter pots so far, and put them in the house for a few weeks. I have already looked at everyone's seeds (non-gmo of course). I am only going to do a garden for the basics, so no full blown growing since the space is so limited here. My herbs take up a lot of space too.

    I want to build a few up right garden planters that will have rows will all the left over wood we had from the renovation just to get rid of some of the mess. Recycle when I can is the best thing for everything.   That will give me a spot to plant more of my herbs, not to mention be easier on the back.   I want to put a few buckets of veggies out too, transplanting some tomatoes and peppers and getting potatoes started in a few too.  

    Sustainability is the thing I really am trying to get better at. Now that we have chickens and ducks we will have the eggs and meat. What more do I need ... a few goats would be nice but that is for a different time and space for now.