Farm Update #3

How's little miss planner's mini farm going?

The peas, artichokes, and carrots finally broke through the dirt and graced us with their presence and the rest are growing nicely. The corn is growing fast!!!


Artichokes

Lettuce

Corn

Cucumbers

Peas

Carrots



If you could plant a garden, what would you plant it it?

Farm Update #2

Today I decided to take a few photos of some of the seedlings growing in our garden. It's really exciting see them pop out of the ground and know you had a part in it.

Cucumbers

Lettuce

Corn


Did you know Mrs.Obama is planting a gardentoo?

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From Little Miss Planner's Farm

Farm Update #1

Over at the planner household, we've been busy working our green thumbs. For something that I thought would only take 1 hour, ended in more like 10 hours worth of hard labor. The before:



So, we dug into the hill and recycled some old railroad ties someone gave us and planted. The after:



We took this photo after day two. This past week, we've cleaned it up more and moved some of the rocks and sticks around and even added some solar lights. Looks very clean and nice. OH, and yesterday morning, we noticed we had corn, cucumber, and lettuce seedlings. We are still waiting for the peas, carrots, and artichokes to pop out.

What all did we plant: Corn, peas, carrots, tomatoes, onions, cucumbers, artichokes, lettuce, and six different types of herbs.

I can't wait till summer when everything well start growing strong!

Did you plant anything this spring?

goals

Goals for 2009

learn what organic really means

create a blog about the whole adventure

create a compost bin

create an irrigation system

produce 100 lbs of food

about

What's all this about? In 2009 Little Miss Planner decided to start a little garden. It soon morphed into a mini farm utilizing a hill in the backyard. Not knowing what she was doing, just started buy dirt and planting seeds. This is her journey of enlightenment and the riches is produces.

What is Little Miss Planner? Well, she's a gal that started chronicling her life of wedding planning and then married life. Check out her blog here!

Can I contact LMP? Yes, email her at: littlemissplanner@gmail.com

What's LMP's grow zone? Zone 9

How big is LMP's farm? Currently is it 475 ft, but with the final part completed by June 15, 2009, it will be 609 sq ft.

Is LMP's farm organic? Yes. We do not use pesticides, we create our own compost and use organic materials to help our little seedlings grow.

Dates to Remember

Dates to remember:

March 23:

• Built Tier 1


• Planted: corn, lettuce, carrots, peas, cherry tomatoes, onions

April 23:

• Built Tier 2


• Planted: lettuce, carrots, spinach, cauliflower, artichokes, spagetti squash

April 26:

• cleaned out side tiers


• Planted: yellow chili peppers, green chili peppers, heirloom tomatoes, 2 squash plants

April 30:

• Moved: sweet basil, regular basil, lemon balm, thyme, mint, cilantro

May 1:

• Cleaned out area 4 for asparagus plants

May 2:

• created stair well

May 7:

• Planted: 4 garlic plants, 6 strawberries plants, rhurbarb, beets

May 9:

• Planted: 10 asparagus plants


• Prepared soil for grape vine

May 16:

• Planted: Pumpkins for Halloween

May 20:

• Planted: Thompson grape vine


• Planted: more Garlic

May 25:

• Planted: swiss chard


• Planted: lettuce


• Planted: carrots


• Planted: beets


• Planted: eggplant


• Planted: Snow Peas

May 30:

• Planted: salad greens


• Planted: spinach


• Planted: pink rosemary


• Planted: oregano


• Planted: sage


• Bought: bell pepper variety pack

July 15:

• Planted: cherry tomato plants


• Planted: grape tomato plants


• Planted: cucumbers


• Planted: basil


• Planted: chives

July 26:

• Planted: snow peas

August 1

• Planted: Carrots


• Planted: Radishes


• Planted: Cucumbers


• Planted: Cantalope


• Planted: Lettuce


• Planted: Spinach


• Planted: Beets


• Transplanted: Butternut Squash

August 8

• Planted: Corn


• Transplanted: Honeydew Melon