Friday, July 2, 2010

Tulips


Pic taken 4/16/2010




Tulips come out


We planted tulip bulbs in November last year. They started sprouting in March (pic taken 3/19/2010)

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Flower bed

This Flower bed has three rose bushes, Tulips, Seedum. We've added some more since this picture was taken (Pic taken 5/21/2010)



Sunday, February 28, 2010

Welcome Season 2010

The snow banks are begining to retreat, the edge of the lawn is begining to show. Granted, it is mostly brown, the temperature is starting to climb up above the freezing point more often. Its time for old man winter to go off on his annual sojourn. And its time to begin thinking about gardening again.

This year we have had more time to plan. So I have come up with a plan for our vegatable garden. We plan to plant 32 different varieties plants, which include vegatables, fruits, greens and herbs. Today, I completed a detailed plan for all the plants including quantity, dates and locations in the garden for each plant. I searched the internet for the last frost date for Cedar Rapids and found a couple of opinions. I chose to place my bets on April 29th being the last frost date.

I started seeds for the eggplants. I hope to have 8 hopefully healthy plants by the end of April. Fingers crossed

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Green Peppers


Green Pepper patch on May 30, 2009. This one has 6 plants

Red Peppers



Red pepper patch on May 30, 2007

Sweet Corn



Our Mini Corn patch has started catching on in these pictures taken on May 30, 2009. This has 12 corn plants 2 in each group. I dint bother to thin it and remove the weaker plant. Just want to see what happens with them