My Gardening Journey

I've been dabbling in gardening off and on over the years but would like to get a little more serious about it. It would be great to be able to provide my family with homegrown foods as well as branch out and share the bounty someday.

I've started planting indoor seedlings this January, 2016, probably far too early, but I love getting my hands in the dirt and seeing life sprout from just a seed. The pictures above are Habanero, as well as Jalapeno peppers. We love to make homemade salsa so it'll be nice to have our very own peppers to add to it. Next I'll have to try growing cilantro. Cilantro is super yummy in salsa.

Next, I planted peas, not for full-grown peas, but for microgreens. Microgreens are harvested before pea pods form. They are packed with nutrition! Microgreens are new for me. I'm not doing it quite right yet. It's more in the experimental stage for now. We'll see how they turn out.

And below, the tray on the right is filled with Beefsteak and Roma tomato seedlings, 76 of them! It would be great to sell some of them if they turn out well.

The tray on the left is filled with lettuce. I was kind of hoping we could harvest lettuce right from the tray whenever we need it.

So this is the start of my gardening journal/journey, maybe sprinkled with a little family adventure every now and then. It's been a nice weekend, with a family hike, visiting, laughing, hassling, teasing and hanging out together. Okay, so I could have done without figuring taxes, but other than that we're good.