Finally have all of my seeds in from the mail now. Cucumber, carrots and some annual flowers that I got with my order. I have all the seeds for my garden now. I also got my first bag of seed starter mix and my lights. My grandpa is going to help me fix up the lights so I can move them along the proper height. My uncle may or may not till the beds for me since I don't want to do it by hand. I could probably manage it if I reall wanted to put in the effort but I really don't want to spend a week or more of back breaking work trying to get all the grass out of the plot. I thought about making a raised bed instead but there is no way I will be able to get enough cinder blocks to outline the bed and soil is still expensive.
This week in school is going to be awful. I had a test in Psychology last night and have two tests on Thursday. I have a test coming up in Art too. All these tests always hit right at the same time and for the life of me I can never take enough time to study. My art test is going to be a matter of flash cards, which have never been a strong point for me. I'll have to work extra hard on those. That means that I can't miss class like I did yesterday so I'm really going to have to make sure that I don't go anywhere in the afternoons on Wendsday and especially Friday. Fridays and Mondays are the worst days of the week for me to have class. I always end up either dozing off before class or rushing from being out running right before class.
I'm really going to have to buckle down on my classes at the rate that I am going. I've got a bad habit of skipping out on the easy classes and not really thinking about it. It's gotten worse lately because of the time that I was running around with my sister. If I can focus and make it to class every day then I should have no problem with keeping my grades up though.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
First of my seeds
I got the first of my seeds in yesterday. I was so excited when I found them in the mail. Tomatoes, peppers, spinach, ground cherry, melons, herbs, and bush beans. I sat and looked through all of the packets and then placed them in their designated spot on my work table. I can hardly wait for the right time to finally start them. I've still got some more seeds coming too.
I was even able to hold on to most of my excitement when my brother and sister started acting like I was never going to grow anything. It makes me crazy when they do that. The only reason that everything that I wanted to grow didn't get done last year was because I was trying to grow in a place I wasn't living. Despite what they seem to think I am quite capable at gardening and considering it is something that I enjoy immensly I'm inclined to do it.
Either tonight or tomorrow I am going to go out to the creek to pick up some of my books from my grandpa's house and when I do I'm gonna ask him for help with preparing my garden bed. I can't remember if he has a tiller or not but I am going to ask him when I see him. If he does then I'm going to see if he will till up the spot for my garden for me. That always works better when it is done the fall before but I am willing to spend extra time weeding since it doesn't have to be that big. I found an article about making a potatoes barrel so I may go out and buy some seed potatoes to grow if I have what I need to make one. I'm going to do all of my herbs in containers this year so I really only need to haveenough room for my veggies. The tomatoes are going along the fence and the beans I'm going to grow near my porch and driveway. The melons are going on the hill and the rest will go in a little garden plot that I am going to surround with river rocks that I willn go out and collect. Hopefully the guy that cuts the grass will have the common sense ot to try cutting in my garden this year. I'm fairly sure that he cut down the shrubs that we bought for my grandma but since I don't have proof I just plan to watch him and probably tell him to keep away from it all.
I was even able to hold on to most of my excitement when my brother and sister started acting like I was never going to grow anything. It makes me crazy when they do that. The only reason that everything that I wanted to grow didn't get done last year was because I was trying to grow in a place I wasn't living. Despite what they seem to think I am quite capable at gardening and considering it is something that I enjoy immensly I'm inclined to do it.
Either tonight or tomorrow I am going to go out to the creek to pick up some of my books from my grandpa's house and when I do I'm gonna ask him for help with preparing my garden bed. I can't remember if he has a tiller or not but I am going to ask him when I see him. If he does then I'm going to see if he will till up the spot for my garden for me. That always works better when it is done the fall before but I am willing to spend extra time weeding since it doesn't have to be that big. I found an article about making a potatoes barrel so I may go out and buy some seed potatoes to grow if I have what I need to make one. I'm going to do all of my herbs in containers this year so I really only need to haveenough room for my veggies. The tomatoes are going along the fence and the beans I'm going to grow near my porch and driveway. The melons are going on the hill and the rest will go in a little garden plot that I am going to surround with river rocks that I willn go out and collect. Hopefully the guy that cuts the grass will have the common sense ot to try cutting in my garden this year. I'm fairly sure that he cut down the shrubs that we bought for my grandma but since I don't have proof I just plan to watch him and probably tell him to keep away from it all.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
The start of my season
I have started the prep for my growing season. I can't wait to start planting and look at the little green sprouts and watch them grow. I've got the lights for my seed starting this year. I'm gonna talk to my grandpa this weekend so I can find out about the chances of him helping me build a stand of some sort that I can use to move the light as the plants grow. It is just the waiting game now. I have to wait for the seeds to come in from the heirloom seed companies that I ordered from and then I just have to wait for the right time to start my seeds. I'll still have to gather all the different supplies that I'll need to purchase like seed starting mix and some basic fertilizer but once I get that and the season reaches the right time. I can hardly wait!
My first seeds should get here in the next week and I can hardly wait to start planning out the time to start them. I've found the container that I am using as a flat and have half of my table ready. I need to get the lights strung up but that is all I have left. I'm gonna grow tomatoes, of course, and peppers and spinach this year. I've also got some herb seeds and a few vegetables that I've never tried before and am going to give a shot. Ground Cherries and Tigger melons are going to be the big question as far as what may not work for my garden this year. I need to get my cucumber seeds and I'm thinking of a few others but I'm undecided about that.
A girl at the gas station my mom works at mentioned that I should try selling some of my harvest but I don't think I will do that. Maybe in a few years when I have established what I am getting in a harvest but right now I just want to grow it and I will share what I grow with everyone in my family. I know for a fact that no matter how else my crops grow I will always have plenty of tomatoes to give out.
My first seeds should get here in the next week and I can hardly wait to start planning out the time to start them. I've found the container that I am using as a flat and have half of my table ready. I need to get the lights strung up but that is all I have left. I'm gonna grow tomatoes, of course, and peppers and spinach this year. I've also got some herb seeds and a few vegetables that I've never tried before and am going to give a shot. Ground Cherries and Tigger melons are going to be the big question as far as what may not work for my garden this year. I need to get my cucumber seeds and I'm thinking of a few others but I'm undecided about that.
A girl at the gas station my mom works at mentioned that I should try selling some of my harvest but I don't think I will do that. Maybe in a few years when I have established what I am getting in a harvest but right now I just want to grow it and I will share what I grow with everyone in my family. I know for a fact that no matter how else my crops grow I will always have plenty of tomatoes to give out.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Sitting at school
My least favorite part of any week is exactly what I am doing right now. I hate sitting at school between classes. It would be different if it was warmer right now but because it is still winter I am stuck sitting in here listening to all the people around me talking about whatever makes up their lives and all I can think about is all of the ways that I could spend this time anywhere else. Monday and Wendsday are the worst because I am sitting here for 2 hours between art and psyc. I could probably go home but it seems like such a waste of gas to drive home for an hour then turn around to come back here. I was going to watch hulu but it won't work right now so I am listening to my headphones and trying to come up with something to do that doesn't drive me completely up the wall. I also have another hour before I even get in to my classroom. I remembered to bring my supper this time. Cheddar noodles and sprite. I also have a sandwich if I am still hungry later but that doesn't make me any less bored and I just feel guilty if I sit and eat out of boredom. I may end up reading ahead in my psyc book, which I really do need to do but that is just as boring as watching the people around me.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
My poor baby
Mateo had surgery today, his tonsils and adnoids removed. He has an immune deficiency that causes him to need daily antibiotics for the rest of his life and all kinds of other problems. The surgery is supposed to help him and make it easier for him to go to school and be a normal kid but when your child is in surgery it is still frightening. And for the record I do know that he is not actually mine. I may be the one that spent the first three years of Mateo's life raising him and taking care of his every day needs but according to everyone else he is not my child. I know it, I don't care. He will always be my baby and there is no way for me to move around that because that is how I am wired. When they got home from the hospital he was so tired and sick. My poor pathetic little boy just wanted to cuddle up and watch tv. I took Dalton with me to the store while Vanessa and Jason sat at the house with Teo and we picked up juice and popsicles for him. We also got him a few gifts to make the fact that he will be laying in bed for the next week more bareable. I picked him up a new storybook and we sat together on the couch for about an hour reading it. When it was about time for me to leave he started throwing up from the pain meds and I really didn't want to leave then but I also had to go so I would leave at all. If I stayed much longer I would be wearing the cleanest dirty shirt from my truck to school tomorrow. I feel awful for him though because the poor baby is miserable from the surgery and the meds that they have him on now. I just hope this is the only surgery he will need for quite a while. Starting a surgery file at the age of 4 never seems to bode well.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Yoga and what I am going to do
So, I just did some yoga for the first time since we moved in to this house last June. I am a giant cream puff. I barely made it through three poses and the muscles in my thighs and arms are still shaking and kinda loose. I'm gonna start doing yoga every day agian, I am getting way to heavy for my liking. Not sure how my sister will react to it though and that is going to be a hard one for me. She has never realized that when she sits and makes fun of me for doing things it actually does hurt. I'll figure it out when the time comes, she's gone most mornings anyway.
In other thoughts I have no idea what I am going to do about work and I really am running out of time to find a job. I may be able to get one at the college but I haven't figured out how to go about that. It is always so confusing to find work around here. I may try and find a job at one of the plant nurseries or garden stores now that it is getting to time for people to start their gardens. I'm still trying to find something at one of the day care centers though. I'm going to go to Eden Childcare tomorrow morning so I can put in an application there agian. They are almost always hiring because they get most of the girls there through state work study. I really hope I can find something soon because I need to know what we are looking at as far as when Jessy moves out this summer. It will just be me and the Princess then and I need to figure out what we will do to make the bills and rent here. It wouldn't be as much of a problem if it wasn't for the $200 a month in gas and electric. I doubt that will be going down any time soon because she keeps it like 80 in this place at all times.
That is something that bothers me. There is no reason to keep the heat above 73 but our house is always 80 or more. You would think we were from the tropics with the temperature of this place.
I'm starting to save yogurt cups to start my seeds in for this year. Figure that most of my seeds will need to be started within the first week or two of February for them to be properly grown and ready when the time comes for me to transplant them. I can't quite decide if I will grow one thing that I keep looking at. There is a plant called a Ground Cherry that I have been thinking about trying for the past few years but I am still not sure if I want to try it yet. I had a bad season last year and most of my garden didn't really thrive. My tomatoes, all of them were heirlooms, managed to thrive despite the problems that the rest of my garden had but trying something new is always such a big decision that I am not sure if I should do it. I may do some more research on it and decide later.
In other thoughts I have no idea what I am going to do about work and I really am running out of time to find a job. I may be able to get one at the college but I haven't figured out how to go about that. It is always so confusing to find work around here. I may try and find a job at one of the plant nurseries or garden stores now that it is getting to time for people to start their gardens. I'm still trying to find something at one of the day care centers though. I'm going to go to Eden Childcare tomorrow morning so I can put in an application there agian. They are almost always hiring because they get most of the girls there through state work study. I really hope I can find something soon because I need to know what we are looking at as far as when Jessy moves out this summer. It will just be me and the Princess then and I need to figure out what we will do to make the bills and rent here. It wouldn't be as much of a problem if it wasn't for the $200 a month in gas and electric. I doubt that will be going down any time soon because she keeps it like 80 in this place at all times.
That is something that bothers me. There is no reason to keep the heat above 73 but our house is always 80 or more. You would think we were from the tropics with the temperature of this place.
I'm starting to save yogurt cups to start my seeds in for this year. Figure that most of my seeds will need to be started within the first week or two of February for them to be properly grown and ready when the time comes for me to transplant them. I can't quite decide if I will grow one thing that I keep looking at. There is a plant called a Ground Cherry that I have been thinking about trying for the past few years but I am still not sure if I want to try it yet. I had a bad season last year and most of my garden didn't really thrive. My tomatoes, all of them were heirlooms, managed to thrive despite the problems that the rest of my garden had but trying something new is always such a big decision that I am not sure if I should do it. I may do some more research on it and decide later.
Sunday, January 22, 2012
Quick question post
OK, so I know that at 3 a.m. I should probably not be making any decisions so I'm not I am posting this and waiting to find out what anyone who reads it thinks.
I'm going through all of my stuff to get ready for the beginning of spring and getting ready to start my seeds and there is no light in the area I will be starting seeds this year. This begs the question, Should I invest in a tabletop lighting system for my seed starting?
I looked them up and the cheapest one that I found would be around $50 and the one that I really like from Territoial Seed is $75. I'm not sure if it would be something that I should invest in right now and more than that I don't know if there is a way to make one on my own for less than what it would cost me to buy one. In my head I can see how to make one, I can even see how I would need to set it up so I ca raise and lower the light according to the plants I am using but I don't know if I could do it or if it would even work. What do you think?
I'm going through all of my stuff to get ready for the beginning of spring and getting ready to start my seeds and there is no light in the area I will be starting seeds this year. This begs the question, Should I invest in a tabletop lighting system for my seed starting?
I looked them up and the cheapest one that I found would be around $50 and the one that I really like from Territoial Seed is $75. I'm not sure if it would be something that I should invest in right now and more than that I don't know if there is a way to make one on my own for less than what it would cost me to buy one. In my head I can see how to make one, I can even see how I would need to set it up so I ca raise and lower the light according to the plants I am using but I don't know if I could do it or if it would even work. What do you think?
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