Starting a garden Post #7

Continuing my tradition of starting each gardening blog with a pretty picture (often not from the garden) 👼 This is a marsh marigold. There is a small creek that runs between my garden and the house. Marsh marigolds are all along the creek. This is related to my garden because I planted marigolds this week 🙂

Not much to see here yet. This week we planted marigolds, bush beans, sweet basil, lemon basil, mint, more onions and more radishes - all from seeds. In addition we planted daisies, coneflowers, sunflowers and black-eyed susans from seeds in beds around the yard. Most of these flowers we also have starter plants in the garage waiting to go out. We had seeds left over so we are going to try them from seed too.

The garlic we started from bulbs a week ago is doing well!

More radishes we started 2 weeks ago from seeds are coming up.

The onion seeds we planted at the same time are also starting to come up.

The biggest new activity this week is starting to harden off some of the seedlings.

These are sunflowers and brussel sprouts. We are loading up a sheet of plywood to move them outside then setting the plywood on 4x4 blocks.

We also started taking the seedlings out of the plastic tote to give them the full outdoors experience 😁
The sunflowers and brussel sprouts will be planted next week. We are starting to harden more seedlings tomorrow.

We updated our garden plot to include some more herbs we added - more types of basil plus mint, thyme, sage, and oregano. Some of these may end up being grown in containers depending on how much space we have as we plant.

We started an interesting side project. When we planted trees last week, we did a little pruning. Some of the branches are in a glass of water and doing very well even sprouting little roots. Maybe we will get them all the way to saplings 😍

Thanks for checking out our garden this week 🌱

Bonus pics:

Strange new life. Not really fiddleheads but something similar coming up outside the garden.