Monday, April 26, 2010

2010 Garden & AeroGarden

So this year I am hoping to do better at keeping the blog up with the gardens!

I don't think I'll rename it, but we currently have 10 cats, if you count the feral kitty we managed to get into the back room as she was having her kittens. She's been hanging out eating our food for months, Cosmos's best friend, but we couldn't catch her in time to spay her. And I spent all that money on a big humane trap but by the time it arrived she was already past heat and pregnant! Here's the kid, now age 13, petting one of the kitties @ 9 days old:



and 12 days old:



I have about 10 seedlings to plant in the standing beds but am mostly matting them this year. I hope to have time and money to do some work on them in the Fall and use more of them next Spring.

Meanwhile I have 5 (!) AeroGardens. 1 of the 7-pod, 4 of the 6-pod. One is still on the way. I have three planted so far. I've given over my long dining table to them, as we have a small round table in the other corner at which we can have meals.

I'm planning to tape together some poster board, then cover it with thin mylar silver reflecting material, to add light for the gardens and increase the whole sci-fi lab effect, haha.



Only the far left has tiny sprouts -- the bigger plants seen are seedlings in a box behind the gardens, that I need to get out and plant sometime today if it doesn't rain yet again!

PJ