MICKEY'S GARDEN #2

Wanted to give you an update on Mickey's garden since posting here on March 10th.

This is our lone fruit tree. We "think" it is a peach tree. Let me explain, when we were traveling we planted a peach seed and an apricot seed in 2 little containers. When we got home we placed the two containers outside by the garage side door and more or less forgot about them. A couple of years ago the one (?) had grown enough Mickey decided to plant it here in the back yard. This little trees has been growing now for 3 or 4 years. Last fall Mickey pruned it back and straightened up. Now this spring we have these lovely blossoms :o) Whether we will get any fruit (?) this year we don't know yet. We loved seeing it bloom and we'll let you know.

These are the 6 root seeds that he has planted: onion, radish, carrot, swiss chard, lettuce & spinach. He has also planted onions sets and behind the fence he has planted potato sets.


The onion sets were doing great and the radishes were already coming up. Then Mr. Weatherman informed us we were getting cold weather and SNOW!! We had to cover up the bed he had planted all those seeds in. I helped him with this cover, to bad no one was around to take a picture of the two of us trying to get this tarp down and fighting the wind. He puts the boards and then cement blocks to keep the tarp from blowing off.

Here you can see the snow that did come.

This side way picture is our 18 little pots of our tomato seeds coming up. All of them are 3-4 inches high now and doing well. We are keeping them on the kitchen table near the window.

Here are the seeds that are under our light in the garage.

From right to left these seeds are Lupine, Blue Sweet Pea and Sunflower. The Lupine & Sweet Pea seeds are from my friend Anita from Germany and the Sunflowers are from my friend, Jennifer in New Mexico. These are all really growing well. We already have some Lupine plants in the yard that we planted last year and weathered the winter. Jennifer's Sunflower's are now about 5" tall and will be planted outside along our fence just as soon as we are sure we'll have no more frost. We had frost on the ground this morning. No, not April's Fools....wish it were.

These seeds are not yet coming up they are Inpatient's, Watermelon and Cantaloupe.

Thanks for letting me share this update on Mickey's garden. We are so thankful to have the large backyard we do where we can have a nice garden and we are praising the Lord that Mickey is totally healed and able to enjoy his gardening and his bees.

Speaking of Mickey's bees......they are doing well and have also survived the winter well. I'm sure we'll be having some bee posts in the future.