Gone Feral In Idaho

A loosing battle with severe environmental allergies has sapped my get up and go, including my blogging. Luckily I have been taking photos, so I'll try to drag my but to do a garden update post. beware: rabid dog the quinalt strawberries are doing really well in their third year brandywine transplanted with homemade wall of waters tomatillo, looking great the pondtainer got some new plants, I will add some native plants as soon as I figure out what to plant gratuitous pic of the dog and corkscrew rush ground cherry random tomato bloom last, but not least, the first tomato of the year is a black krim.

I bought a Nook Color and have been trying to hack it , resulting in a lot of lost time. We have been moving along on the gardens and the peas, radishes, lettuce, green onions, beets, and kale are coming up.  Things have gotten a bit out of control indoors with all the starts. This is light rig #2 with the "big plants" Last weekend I decided to bite the bullet and put two already flowering Black Krims out in the greenhouse fortified with homemade 2 liter bottle wall of waters, or solar insulators.  When I got home tonight it was 46 degrees outside and 60 in the greenhouse. It will drop to 31 tonight. I hope it will stay over 45 in there.   We pulled off the greenhouse to plant these monsters. I cut off the lower branches and planted them as deep as possible. Here they are all tucked away, the whole thing is closed up now to keep warm. And now, for something completely different: Here is the crazy-ass duck Kyle and I spotted "surfing" at the Barber Park dam. Thi...

45 degrees outside, maybe i'll stunt their growth and buy some time These are two of the four 8 week old Black Krim plants. It's March 26th, there are 6 weeks left before the average last frost date. They are huge and each plant has started to bloom. I have a very hard time offing my plants and am in a bit of a pickle, so I've started an experiment in the greenhouse. I filled 8 more 2 litre bottles to help absorb as much solar energy, although cloudy wet weather isn't helping the cause. circle the wagon train Tomatoes don't like temps below 55 degrees on average, so we have a long way to go. I'm recording each days high and low in the greenhouse and as soon as possible, will plant two of the Krims inside rings of bottles. In the mean time, I have a sacrificial Zavory pepper plant planted in the right circle of bottles. poor little guy, i feel bad for him I'm not sure if I'll learn anything from this experiment other than plants don't like the cold...

Sadie and I spent day one of my four day weekend outside in the yard.  I re-potted seedlings and she kept guard. It was a perfect afternoon. I never take my weekends for granted.  Gardening is a perfect hobby for me to have. It is very meditative and so full of life. It is a nice balance for working with grieving people and  the dead. I also think starting seeds indoors would benefit those with SADD. There is nothing better than coming home from work on a dreary late winter night and having those grow lights on and little seedling to watch as they grow from seeds into little identifiable plants. I know it is cheap and easy to buy seedlings at the store, but I love the whole ritual of choosing seeds in December, planning the gardens when you don't dare go outside because of the weather, and the actual sowing-waiting for the first seedlings to curl up from the soil.   These are some of the tomato varieties: tomatillo, garden huckleberry, and ground ...

These are the very early started tomatoes that are 8 weeks early.  Black Krim. Zavory mild habanero. New 8 week start seedlings. The wild Yellow Wonder strawberries are growing!