Just to tide you over. I know my updates are sparse. I do like a couple per month, it seems. Maybe I'll do more as things get busier, here, I dunno.

Okay, so we're gonna trade in the aluminum cans we've been collecting from the side of the road, in order to have the last bit of money we need for the last few seeds and plants we need. That's what we're doing this weekend. Meanwhile, I've been trying to "harden off" all the plants we've started inside (that got rather big)...because we'll be digging next week, if we can't till.
 The hard work begins next week!
A couple weekends ago I started working on the compost pile we have had started. Turned it, added some soapy water. I've more soapy water to add once we have another non-rainy day.  We've already started on a second compost pile, as well.
 We've collected alot of wood, from our walks, cleaning out the local church's backyard, offa freecycle...for the various things we need it for around here. Trellises, fence posts (as Mom's gonna be getting nylon deer fence this month as well), poles for the tomatoes, for building a compost bin, etc.

We only need a couple last seed packets, and only a handful of plants, so yeah. It's mainly the potatoes I'm worried about getting, at this point.

Also on our adventures I successfully transplanted a small wild rose from the church's backyard to the side of our house, we got a black rasberry bush from a lady on freecycle (as well as some daylilies), I rescued a small tree (I forget what kind) for Mom from the same place I got the rose from.  We've sold spare plants to four people, we've given away spare plants to at least two.

We're way ready to get going.

Cory's blended quite nicely here, and is very helpful.

It's been interesting, lets just leave it at that.

And lastly, I've news and thoughts from today.
On our walk, we met a lady who owns a small tree farm and nature preserve -- a greenie, on our road! Who knows where my Mom's missing cat is! She also gave us a bag of cans, ^_^ it was cool.

As for thoughts, I've been thinking about maybe putting in a small pond in Charlie's pen...for ducks.
 My old dog could use the company, and they'd be safer with him. We'll have to see though, I'm not sure I can do that this year. Maybe if I've some spare time, eh?

Next update: pictures!

Transplanted the kohlrabi after it got horribly mangled today. And the brocoli.
And most of the serano peppers.

Not much left to transplant. Red bell peppers. Wonder bells. That's pretty much it.

Bloody Butcher tomatoes, Tennesee cheese peppers, and ancho peppers are all on their way...so we'll be starting those this april. My new school books are coming mid-April. We're gonna start working the ground this April.

We made our first sale, yesterday. To a lady in the city who's gardening. 10 beefsteaks, 4 jalepenos, 2 of each of these tomato varieties; red zebra, green zebra, purple cherokee, red brandywine...and she recently added two red bells to her list.

Works out to be 12 or so bucks, at fifty cents a plant. The lady's really happy to get them, really appreciative, my Mom says. So I'm glad.

We think we may have to put up most of the extra cherry tomatoes on freecycle. Just a ton of everything. We've got...maybe 39 serano peppers, that we added to the list today. I reckon we'll have a TON of red bells, and a decent amount of wonder bells, too.
We'll see about trying to see some at a flea market, this April. Not sure if we can afford splitting the spot with Alicia, but it'd help us alot, with space, if we could sell off some of the plants there in April.

I promise, I'll take as many pictures as I can as things progress. I still need to take new pictures of the tables.

It's been a nice Friday, it was warm enough to open the windows for a little while...inspiring our neighbor to work with his power tools on his porch and for one of our cats to slip outside...which meant we had to chase her down and lug her crying self back inside (she loves the outdoors, xD -- and she's the cat that we can put a collar on and walk, without worrying she'll slip out or anything).

On the "what's left to get" front, I've got five things on my ebay.
Bushel gourd seeds.
Prickly pear cactus seeds
Black beauty zucchini seeds
Black aztec corn
Par-cel seeds

I'll be buying the cactai seeds Monday, when the auction ends 'cause they're only a buck and I have that much in my paypal, heh. The rest're buy it nows that last for another month, so I'll be able to get them by time I get paid again (from mylot). The most expensive item, is the black aztec corn. Blue dent would be cheaper, if Shumways took paypal.

So, two weekends ago, my Dad got Mom some mini greenhouses for starting seeds indoors.
The day after that Sunday, we put all the seeds in all the little non-dirt, dirt...things, and five days later, things started sprouting. Since then, I've transplanted some things out of there, more things have gotten bigger, etc. But here are pictures from the first week so that I can clear out my camera and take new ones:

^ Brocoli!

My dandy's. OK, so I started these last November...but now that the light's stronger they've gotten much bigger.

Each of the mini greenhouses has a list of what's in it on them. They'll need revising several times before the risk of frost is done with, if this rate of growth is any indication. As you can tell, this flat has kohlrabi. The green at the end of the flat you see? That's the kohlrabi.

There's the kohlrabi up close.

Morning glories. Why? Because I heart them. I know, I know...as a farmer I should despise them entirely, but I've a soft spot for sensitive plants. And, yeah, I tend to love "weeds". Morning glories ARE poisonous, this is true, so they don't have practical applications like most other weeds I like (clover, ground ivy, dandelions for example)...but my home must have these growing by the mail box, elsewise, I can't really consider it as my home.

My morning glories are now actually out of the starter flat and into larger pots in another flat. They tend to grow a few inches every day or so. What did I expect from weeds? xD

My dracaena has doubled in size since you last saw it.

The first week, no peppers sprouted. There are actually a handful of tomatos in the flat to the left of this picture, but they didn't sprout either.

My chives have been growing rather enthusiastically. Unfortunately, my cat (Grims) likes to mangle the poor thing. We have more chive seeds, which I'm probably gonna sew outside as soon as it's warm enough.

Table number two. As you can tell, all these pictures were taken in the morning.

The non-peppers flat that refused to sprout much the first week. This one's mostly onions.

There are more seeds in that box.

Tomatos! They hadn't ALL sprouted by the first week, but they're all well up by now.
Here's a list of all our tomatos so far:
Beefstake, about twelve or so of them.
Cherry tomatos, a whole flat, (over seventy two of them)
Green Zebra (six, so far, of them)
Speckled striped roma tomatos, one row (six)
Nyagous, one row
Purple Cherokee, one row
Red German Strawberry, one row
Floridade, about twelve of them
Red brandywine, one row

Hopefully, bloody butcher tomato seeds will be arriving soon as well so that we can plant them.

Stay tuned! More pictures on the way!

Things are progressing far better than I hoped, though we are having a hard time finding money for the last of the seeds. Things are rather tight right now.

Before you say, "HOLY CRAP, girl, that's alot and most of your things have to be planted by spring and not earlier, that's not even half of your stuff!"...I'll have you know that we're selling surplus plants. There's a church that's sponsoring local growers (due to popular demand by victory gardeners) and their plants and produce that lets you set up and sell things for free in their parking lot on the weekends as soon as it's warm.
 This year's adventure's just getting started and I assure you, we're thinking on our feet with all this.