We woke up yesterday to even MORE snow!! Can you believe it?
The HH spent another hour outside with the snowblower, shoveling the walkway and fine tuning Lucy’s racetrack.
It looks like the snow will be around for a while, and that’s fine by me. I love the stuff. 😉
Anyways, there SO MUCH to do inside it’s not even funny. I worked on patterns for a few hours and then switched gears to gardening.
Well, checking on my lavender seedlings and sorting my vegetable seed packets that is.
The germination rate on my 3 year old lavender seeds looks like it’s about 75%. Not too shabby if you ask me.
I’m hoping for 25-50 plants. We’ll see how things pan out.
If you buy Miracle-Gro seed starting mix you should know that at The Home Depot it runs $7.97 a bag for 8 quarts.
BUT if you order it online and have it delivered TO YOUR HOUSE {!!} it’s only $5.18 a bag {2 bags for $10.36}.
Someone explain that one to me.
I use this to start my seedlings every year so I ordered mine online. And with my savings I’ll be buying a few pastries next month. Thank you very much.
Whenever I see cheaper prices online than in stores it makes me think there is a grand plan. Like companies WANT people to stop shopping in person and just order everything online.
The robots are coming. Soon.
In other news, my new Vego raised garden beds arrived yesterday. YEE-HAW!!! We ordered them online from Costco.
I wanted to get them before they sold out.
I liked the height, the HH liked the color {green} and we both liked knowing that if there are any problems with them down the road we can bring them back to Costco for a refund or replacement.
Costco stands behind their stuff!!
I meant it when I said I wanted to grow a lot of vegetables this year. These should help. Plus I think they’ll look pretty cool too once they’re all set up.
Tomato’s I’ll Be Planting
14 varieties! I am super excited about this. I wonder if there’s a new favorite in there. Fingers crossed we have a nice warm summer and we are swimming in tomatoes.
Sunrise Bumble Bee
Purple Bumble Bee
Sun Gold
Tasmanian Chocolate
German Johnson
Mountain Magic
Principe Borghese
Martino’s Roma
Juliet
German Lunchbox
Tomato Seeds, Chocolate Pear
Glacier
Marmalade
Alice’s Dream
Beans I’ll Be Planting
I’m most excited about the Christmas Limas. Christmas Lima Pole Beans.
Maxibel
Blue Lake Bush 274
Bean Seeds, Calima
More Vegetables I’ll Be Planting
China Jade Burpless Cucumber
Black Beauty Zucchini
Detroit Dark Red Beets
Tokinashi Turnips
Easter Egg Radishes
French Breakfast Radishes
Jalapeño Craig’s Grande
Sweet Pepper Seeds, Aji Cachucha
Sweet Pepper Seeds, Jimmy Nardello Italian
Rhubarb, Onions, Flowers and Herbs
Victoria Rhubarb
Autumn Giant Leeks
Yellow Sweet Spanish Onions
Common Chives
Cilantro
Genovese Basil
Queen Lime Blush Zinnia
English Lavender
Mammoth Grey Striped Sunflowers
My main focus this summer will be growing {and canning} boatloads of tomatoes. Hopefully enough for at least a few dozen jars of our favorite salsa plus all our other favorites.
Hopefully I have picked out enough seeds to make all my canning dreams come true. 🙂
A girl can dream, right?
What are YOU most looking forward to growing this year? Curious minds want to know.
~Mavis
Sam says
I ordered two raised beds for last summer but ended up just doing a few container pots. I really want to do better and have at least tomatoes and peppers and cucumbers.
Peg says
I agree 100% about retailers wanting us to shop online. In our town, several good grocery deals are only available if you place a pickup order or delivery. Plus, Walmart and Kroger have implemented dynamic pricing, which can change the price of an item after putting it in your physical cart and before you get to the checkout. Ugh.