Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Where did the time go!?

I swear we are still in the middle of winter.  But a few days ago I started counting back from our last frost date and realized that I need to start seeds 2 weeks ago.  So this last weekend I scrambled to get all the seeds in order by the date they needed to be started and then pulled out the soil and planted away.  I don't have much yet...but next weekend I will have quite a bit more.  Here's what I started:

4 Goji Berry
6 Fig
12 Mint
9 Yellow Pepper
9 Orange Pepper
9 Chocolate Pepper
18 Sweet Spanish Onion
9 Copra Onion
4 Cayenne
4 Rhubarb
9 Leek
4 Dill
4 Black Beauty Eggplant
4 Early Long Eggplant
4 Toothache Plant
36 Cabbage
9 Shady Lady Tomato
9 Beefsteak Tomato
9 Cherry Tomato
9 Black Krim Tomato
20 Lavender

As mentioned in a previous post, we are planning on growing all of our own food. Looking at this list, I am guessing that I probably started more peppers than we need - but I am not sure we will have enough onions, leek or cabbage.  However, the kids are not big on those so who knows - maybe my estimate will be perfect.

On a side note, a few weeks go we also got 4 Americana chickens.  We didn't expect them to start laying yet - seeing as how it was 30 degrees outside this morning at 8:30 am.  But I was surprised when I went to give them a few snacks after work and found two pretty blue eggs.  I'm egg-cited to see if they continue producing this winter!  ;)

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