OMG pumpkins!

Seriously, these things grew SO FAST! They are so huge! I think they need to go in the ground, but I'm not quite sure where to put them. . .



One tiny strawberry plant! I need to try starting a few more seeds. . .



This is one of the green peppers! They are the last of my seeds to begin to come up. I was so excited to see them looking like this when I checked on them this morning!



My little tray of baby vegetable plants. Four slicing tomatoes, ten (TEN!) cherry tomatoes, four lettuce, and four hot peppers.

I'm hesitantly hopeful that I might have a halfway decent garden this year after all! Of course, it all depends on whether or not they survive, and if it stays warm enough for them to actually get to the point of generating vegetables. . .

Best. Husband. Ever.

Glenn came home from work last night, and look what he had stopped and got for me!!!



So cool!!!

I had just today been looking in my "Gardener's Supply Company" catalog, looking for some sort of thing I could use to store my plants as they get started - preferably something that could go inside or out - and that would keep the cats out - but everything seemed so expensive, and I got discouraged. . . Well, I must have been sending Glenn messages with my brain or something, because I never mentioned it to him, and he just picked this up on a whim. And it's perfect! It's big, so fits lots of plants, but collapsible, so once my plants are outside, I can collapse it down and store it until it's needed again. The plastic covering keeps the cats out, but lets me in, so hooray for that! And, I can wheel it around to whatever window is sunniest at the moment. I just love it!

Also, he got more of the pots that can go straight into the ground with the plant, and more seed-starting soil. And at lunch I went and got some trays to put under these pots so I can water them indoors. So, I'll be starting some more peppers and pumpkins tonight, to replace those seeds I messed up! Yay!

And, I was just looking at my plants and noticed that one of the slicing tomato seeds finally popped up. Hooray!

Seeds are sprouting!

My seeds are starting to come up!

Plant tally so far:

- 3 lettuce
- 6 cherry tomato
- 2 blades of cat grass

I don't know how long it takes the other seeds to pop up, but just in case they're not planning to pop up because I did something wrong, or because of those peppers/pumpkins that I jumbled up immediately after planting, I'm going to start another flat of each. I tried to pick up another of the "greenhouse" style kits that I got at Wal-Mart, but they were sold out. I'm off to Home Depot after work to see if they have something I could use.

I'm feeling pretty happy that I'm going to get something out of this gardening adventure after all, because I spent quite a bit of money on the seeds for this year! My only concern now is where I'm going to plant these once they are big enough to go outside. I might have to give up the garden from last year, and start over on the other side of the house, where there is no devil's grass, because all that grass I ripped out the other day had significantly re-grown by the very next day! My only concern with the other side of the house is that it's very exposed, which might be good as far as sunlight goes, but not so good as far as people meddling goes. But seriously, not having to deal with the devil's grass might be enough to sway me! Maybe I could set up some sort of make-shift fence to guard it. Must think on this. . .