Planted on March 25th

Here is the first flower pouch (I was calling them grow bags) filled with violas. Dang it was a heck of a fiddly job pushing the roots of the Violas through the slits in the bag, without doing too much damage to the plants. I am not sure if I want to attempt filling the other eleven bags or not.
The bag now has to lay flat for a week or so, until the plants settle in. I have a bunch of hen & chicks looking for a home, perhaps I will see how they do in one of these pouches.

I bought a four pack of celery and managed to gently tease the roots apart on some which were obviously planted two seeds to a hole, to end up with six healthy looking plants, plus one little wimpy plant, which may or may not make it.

Also bought a six pack of bib lettuce and ended up with eleven plants. In my square foot plans I had allowed just four spots for the initial planting of lettuce, so all the lovely bonus plants are now in the tires where tomatoes will go when the time is right. Notice the orange and blue of the tomato cages I bought last year. I like to have lots of a little bit of color in the vegetable garden.

7am Thurdsay 26th

This morning I have a lovely crop of frosted flowerpots. Last evening, after I had my plants in the ground and as I was putting away my gardening tools, my gut feeling told me it was going to frost, even though it was not in the forecast.

This newbie veggie gardener is learning to pay attention. I am so happy I listened to my intuition, something I was inclined to ignore in the past.
Not any more, from here on out, the smart thing to do is to I cover all my tender plants, just in case there is a frost.


I looked around for something to use in a hurry as it was late, and I had to get inside and fix dinner. My eye fell on all these flowerpots I had stacked in a corner, I had one of those ah ha! moments, and the pictures tell the rest of the story.

Quote of the day
Despite the gardener's best intentions, Nature will improvise.
~Michael P. Garafalo, gardendigest.com