a boy and his donut/first growth of 2010

 

 colby and his donut 

yesterday i went to a wedding festival with the pig girl, her sister, and their nephew, little man colby. pig girl is getting married later this year and still needed to pick out her flowers and band/dj, so i tagged along cause i like to hang with the colbster, and of course, to eat my weight in cake samples. not to mention that this one booth had a mashed potato bar. other than that the wedding festival was alright. that kinda of stuff is not really my cup of tea. BUT, i did see something that was pretty nifty and right up my alley. a wedding bouquet made out of cabbage leaves. awesome idea. 

 

 i think their arrangement needs just a touch of an accent color, 

but what a cool idea. 

 oohhh, mix that with a small white hydrangea blossom, 

or better yet some white pea blossoms and that would be totally awesome. 

anyway, enough of this wedding nonsense. with two girls at work getting married this year, i'm a little wedding talked out. plus i still find it a bit silly to spend soooo much money on a one day thing. give me a court house, a cabbage/pea blossom bouquet, and a vintage white eyelet dress (or something thing like this), and i'm good to go. so enough of that and on to more important matters.......

today's weather forecast: 

high of 45 degrees and mostly sunny!!!!!!!! 

time to get out and get to work in the garden. 

(cause the only thing i've done so far this year is start a small pot of parsley)

  

the first growth of 2010.

today i need to clear out the fall garden, work the ground a bit, add in some soil amendments, and address the long forgotten compost bucket. i was hoping to get some peas going, but the green arrow peas that i wanted are on back order. later i might venture out to see if i can find some, but until then i still need to get their space ready and redo the netting layout into one long line. i hope to plants the peas along one row of netting and then in front of that lay out a row of radishes. hopefully both will be done by the time the tomato plants need to be set out. since i'm still working with a limited space and long list of veggies i want to try to grow this year, i'm going to have to really consult the books and get great ideas on how to grow different veggies together for a maximum yeild in minimum space. speaking of veggies, here is a list of the seeds i have left over from last year and a list of the news seeds that i ordered from seed savers exchange. 

 

this year's new batch of seeds.

seeds just in from seeds savers exchange 

lettuce mixture
(amish deer tongue, australian yellowleaf, bronze arrowhead, 

forellenschuss, lollo rossa, pablo, red velvet, and reine des glaces)
 

 mexican sour gherkin cucumber

chervena chushka pepper

garden sunshine pepper

fish pepper
red Russian kale
christmas lima bean

bee balm
thyme
green culinary sage
grandma erinck’s dill

 seeds left over from last year 

sparkler white top radish
american flag leeks
sherwood leeks
red core chantenay carrot
tai sai Chinese cabbage
silverbeet swiss chard
granpa admire’s lettuce
roquette arygyla
mixed Japanese greens
slobolt lettuce
bloomsdale longs standing spinach
monnoop spinach

hillbilly potato leaf tomato
beam’s yellow pear tomato
martino’s roma tomato 

cherry roma tomato

giant Italian parsley
cilantro
common chives
large leaf basil

southern giant curled mustard
purplt top white globe turnips
american purple top rutabaga

time to get a planting!!!!!!