Gardening: Peek-A-Boo

Little things are starting to pop up and some things are still hanging around from fall.  I love Spring and I'm SUPER excited for us to really start gardening this year.  Jacob's given me a budget and a catalog and told me to pick out what I would like planted this spring so that is one of my tasks for the weekend.  If you were planting a garden, what would you grow??  I know I want some tomatoes (not a huge fan of eating them plain but I would love to make homemade salsa, spaghetti sauce & soup).  Possibly some blueberry bushes but they take a few years to bear fruit.  Oh and lots more flowers.  I would LOVE a rose garden (my favorite flower) and some potted gerbera daisies.  So many choices...anyway, just thought I'd show you what's starting to make an appearance in our yard.

We started some bell pepper seedlings in an egg carton.  You know what's so great about these??  I gutted them from a pepper I was cooking with in the fall, dried them out and saved them in a jar.  Since this is my first time doing this, I wasn't sure what would happen but was thrilled to see them poke their little green leaves out of the soil.  I'm all about recycling...I also saved some butternut and acorn squash seeds but those will be planted later in the year.

Jacob planted some tulip bulbs for me in the fall because they are one of my favorites.  I can't wait to see the color on them.  I think they are an assorted variety but I don't remember what I picked out.  :)

First flowers at our house!  Thanks to Anita who told me what this plant was last year.

Remember this?  Well, our broccoli never had ideal growing weather but somehow it hung in there and survived the winter snow.  We're hoping that it will finish growing but I'm glad to see the form of something that actually looks like broccoli.  There are about 7 plants from what I can tell.  Notice all of the weeds I talked about previously?  And...notice the netting.  Our white tailed pests friends thought we were planting our garden for them.  How silly of them.  The netting has worked great.

Same goes for our 45 day cabbage that is now on probably day 150 or something but at least it looks like cabbage and it's still very hearty.  And it is growing...just verrrrry slowly.  Hopefully this spring weather will give it the extra boost it needs.  We have about 9 plants.