Hello beefriends! I planted my first seeds 18 days ago, and so far I have turnip, tomato, and pumpkin sprouts growing! See if you can guess which are the pumpkins, 12 days in:
toms, turnips, and PUMPKINS
This is my first time growing pumpkins so I am excited. :)
Today I had to restart the compost, because the full bucket I had going molded a lot, so bad that I was just like ...nope. And started over. I was wondering why the mold, and then when I was changing out Yuan's cat grass I saw that that soil had a little of the same green mold in it!!
new compost beginnings/little spots of green mold in the old grass pot
The last time I had changed his grass I had put the spent dirt and grass into the compost, so I guess that's where it came from. I have not had the cat grass mold before so my best guess is that it's because that container didn't have very good drainage. I want to plant another big outside flat for him but I haven't yoinked something to serve as the flat yet (the one I was using last year was plastic and had become so brittle, pieces were breaking off, so I chucked it), so I just planted another small indoor flat for him for now (in a different pot!), and I'll figure out what to use for outside another day. I like to plant him big wide flats that not only last a long time but also because he likes to lay in it and nap, or sit in it while he noms:
I also planted a pot with clover seeds outside today, as the little starter pot I had inside hadn't sprouted yet, and I wondered if it wasn't too warm in my apartment for them. I think clover is a cold-weather sprout, so we'll see how direct sowing outside in April does (normally you don't want to put things outside until mid-May here, because it can still get cold and snow. We've had many a Beltaine snowfall here!). If it gets really cold and snowy I can always move the pot inside or put it under the greenhouse roof I made out of old CD cases.
I made the CD greenhouse 8 years ago and eventually the "house" part fell apart but the roof is still intact and I still use it! It was only held together with Elmer's glue so it's actually impressive that the roof is still going, I think.
Yuan was a good helper as always and hopefully we'll have a nice balcony garden to hang out in soon as the weather warms up. I still have to find where I hid the wingnuts to put the table back together... 😅
You can even see the folded greenhouse roof next to him under the air conditioner
Early spring in Colorado can be pretty tempermental, so gardens start slow, but the trees are beginning to bud and flower so green is on the way! _
Have a great day and thank you for reading!