Seedlings

The weather has been very rainy the last few weeks, but Spring is right around the corner. It's still technically planting season, but I still have to get the garden plots ready. Our soil is kind of crummy, so I need to beef it up with some compost and fertilizer. Hoping to attack that project this weekend. For now, I just have these adorable little seedlings sprouted on my kitchen counter. I'm so proud of them, even though I know that it doesn't exactly take much to sprout seedlings. You can sprout seeds on a wet paper towel, for Pete's sake. Still! This represents the beginning of my garden! These seedlings are the beginning of several tomato plants, a couple cucumbers, some basil and some rosemary. They'll probably go into the ground sometime in the next couple weeks.

While we're waiting for the vegetables and herbs to be planted, we've kept ourselves busy planting flowers. Last night Joey, Kristin and I planted several sunflowers and cosmos in a few different locations around the yard. I also have some nasturtium to plant, but didn't get to that yet. In addition, we also have a fairly large group of "volunteer" sunflowers that have come up in the area where we used to have a bird feeder. They're already over 3 feet tall! I have no idea what they'll look like when they finally bloom, but they have several flower heads on them already. I love watching the garden come alive!