Check Out The Progress of My Plants Here

If you are interested in how my plants are doing, then you have came to the correct blog.  I have taken a few pictures of most of my plants that I started inside and want to share them with you.

Some plants have died in the process which is something that happens in every season and others are doing better than I had hoped.  Every year is different and I want to update you with how the majority of my plants are doing and how they are getting hardened off outside with the current warm weather.

First I want to let you know about some of the new flowers that I started growing this week.  Alyssum is one of those plants that needs to be incorporated into most gardens because of their ability to attract beneficial insects. 

These flowers are rich in nectar which is what these insects feed on including bees that you will need throughout the year for flowers that they pollinate.  Once you attract them they will continue to come back to your yard year after year.  Take in mind that this is not a quick solution to your pest problem and is merely a slow and permanent solution to help lower populations of parasitic insects.

Now on to the updates that you came here to look at.

Cucumbers and a squash plant in the bottom of the picture.

Some alyssum, cherry tomatoes, cantaloupe, and two pumpkins.

Here are the spinach plants that were transplanted into the garden a couple of weeks ago.  They are looking good and will be picked relatively soon.

Peppers, watermelon, and cucumbers are seated in peat pots in this picture.

 Don't forget about all my squash plants that are crucial to the garden.  Zucchini and pumpkins are my favorite vegetables to grow.  I may not like eating them, but they can be extremely exciting to grow.

There are many more plants that I will be updating you with.  This is just a taste of what is to come in the near future.  Very soon I will be planting them into the garden where they will sit for the remainder of the season.  Stay tuned for that post which will come within the next couple of weeks.

An Update on My Gardening Progress

It has been a couple of days since I last wrote a post about how my gardening is coming along.  The last two days were quite busy and I wanted to let you know what I have done. 

Cleaning up the garden was the very first thing I accomplished because it is time to start planting the spinach into the ground.  If you leave them in the container too long they might begin to bolt and this is not something that you want to happen because this means the end of the harvest.  Not only that but temperatures are begin to rise and they need to get in the ground right away so that we can take advantage of them.  This will all be happening tomorrow.

Since weather is getting warmer it is now time to start placing plants outside for the daytime sunlight.  They are in the windowsill getting some sunlight, but if you put them outside they will receive more sunlight and they will start to harden off.  This process is very important and all your plants will have to go through and why not do it as early as possible. 

So far my plants are doing pretty good (knock on wood) and they seem to be enjoying the containers that they are placed in.  Here are a few pictures that I took that I think you would enjoy.

The pumpkins that sprout very quickly have began to surface.

Here is how the flowers I first grew are doing.

This is just a simple update on the progress of most of my plants.  I will bring more updates in the future so make certain that you keep in touch with this blog.