Friday Update (3/25/2011)

Here's the stuff I have to show you today:

This is the vege soup I fed the worms yesterday evening. A few worms have found their way over to the pile.  I gave them a little mist of water......(btw, this is buried in the middle of the depth of newspaper shreds) so I covered it back up with another layer of damp newspaper and then

added a piece of wet cardboard to the top to help keep in the moisture (since it's so dry here in West Texas.) followed by the lid that came with the tub.

I did buy just a couple of plants. The one here is a grape Roma tomato.  I wanted some small tomatoes and I thought this would be an interesting choice this year.  It looks a little droopy from the ride home, so I gave it a drink of water.

Put the 2 water filled 2 liter coke bottles in the 5 gal bucket, sphagnum moss, then potting mix.  The tomato plant is a bit taller in the bucket than I want.  They really need to be planted halfway up the plant that you bring home from the store to help the root system get well established.  I am planting my other "store bought" plant (mint) with this tomato.

And here's the finished tomato and mint.

Here's my "baby" yellow squash.  I also seeded Nasturtiums around outside edge of the bucket  and I added a small piece of mint.

See the (white) roots coming out?  Time to plant my Black Diamond Zucchini!

I left it low in the bucket to protect it from the winds that we always get. I'll build up the dirt to the top as it grows. That's a cutting of mint in there with it to help deter squash bugs. (What a pain in the butt those are!)

Looks pretty barren, doesn't it?  The top one is (maybe you can see the purple seedling) purple basil.  Still waiting on my tomato seed to sprout.  Lord, give me patience, RIGHT NOW!!!  lol I gave it a good drink.

If you look in the center, there's a bean (bush)  peeking through.  I've had those in my portable green house (plastic crates) and it was really warm to the touch.

There's some basil sprouting from the portable double layered greenhouse.  These plants, I must say, look stronger than the 1st ones I started in the one layer of plastic because the heat and moisture are held in more efficiently.

These are Johnny Jump Ups sprouting up.  They are pretty and edible, too! 

I'm using this kelp tea for watering the seedlings.  They say it helps, but I can't really tell, yet.  We'll see.

 Going to rest for a bit now and TRY, I say TRY to do some cooking tonight.  I want to do some experimenting with kolaches.  When I get to it, be sure pics will be up soon after showing what and how I've done it.....have a GREAT WEEKEND!!