Gardening - Week 3

The sunflowers were outgrowing their egg carton starters, so I bought some peet pots and transfered them over.
 Sixteen of the eighteen sunflower seeds sprouted into nice strong seedlings.

The seedling's roots were already growing through the egg carton material.

The peet pots will provide the sunflowers with more room to grow and give us more time to plant them in the garden.


While at the patio table working with the sunflower seedlings and peet pots, the boys came outside to talk about Dakota's day at school.  Dakota then taught PapaBear how to play "Slap Jack" (a card game he plays at school).
A great memory moment that warmed my heart.

PapaBear finally found a dwarf tangelo tree that he had been wanting, and replanted it into a half barrel on wheels.

During one of my morning plant "rounds", I was "ticked" to find that our neighborhood rabbits had decided to eat the tops off of some of my bulbs! 

After that, everything went up on the patio table or bench.  Once, shame on the rabbits; twice, shame on me!
You can see the dwarf tangelo in it's half barrel in the background.

The blueberry, blackberry and raspberry pots off the ground and on the bench.

Finally, made some more progress on weeding and toiling the vegetable side of the garden area.
 My foreman in his cone of shame.


It's all looking so great!  We are on schedule to have the truckload of amended topsoil delivered this week.  This will give the soil enough time to settle before the bulbs/plants for my butterfly garden are delivered in about two weeks.

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