I'm back

I got pretty quiet last year. I hosted my class reunion in August, got pretty sick, and the garden fuddled along with me.

I waited until the last day to take down my fences and posts. It took about 45 minutes to get everything flat so when the snow would come, the garden wouldn't be discernible (as per city code).

The Garden President, Sophia, banged on my door earlier that day to yell at me and tell me I was horrible (when I told her she woke me from my sick bed) she yelled that I was lazy and should sleep at night like a normal person.

I'm not sure if she has hard feelings for me. Ultimately, she can decide that I don't get a plot this year because almost broke the rules. I'm still pretty ticked. I'd like an apology. But she's a bossy, grouchy old lady so there's not much chance of that.

I flip-flopped over whether to have a garden or not. As soon as I agreed with myself that it was going to do it, "gardening" has had my attention online, in the stores, and looking through my homesteading books.

This will be my third plot in our community garden (as long as Sophia doesn't ban me). I never had a garden of my own before this and I've made a lot of mistakes (which really irks the senior citizens who think I waste). Since I've made some really annoying mistakes, I think I started off well.

I bought a 5'5" indoor greenhouse ($19.99 on sale) with a clear plastic cover and zipper access. I saved lots of my small plastic pots from last year. Last night, I started some seeds in my 72-cell Jiffy plant-starter tray from last year. I did some bigger pots for lettuce mix. EACH pod got it's OWN label written on a mini popsicle stick ($5 for 1000) in permanent ink that includes the date the seeds were started. I haven't been so organized in the past and it took a lot of extra time.

Here's the seed list for 15 March 2013. Most are last year's leftover seeds:
Amaranth: Love Lies Bleeding
Brussels Sprouts: Long Island Improved
Cat Nip
Chives: Common
Cliantro
Coleus: Rainbow Mix
Cosmos: Gazebo Mix
Oat Grass
Pepper: Cubanelle
Pepper: Poblano/Ancho
Sweet Pepper: Carnival Hybrid Mix
Sweet Pepper: Red Roaster Hybrid
Tomato: Super Sweet 100 cherry tomato
Tomato: Warren's Yellow cherry tomato
Wheat Grass

Gosh, when I look at the list all spelled out like that, it seems like a lot. There are still a lot of crops I want to grow. I'm going to hold off a week (if I can restrain myself) until these seeds get a good run at sprouting. I dreamed about them being a little lawn of green last night. They aren't sprouted of course, but my brain is already there.