I need your HELP!

Just want to ask everyone for a major favor!

The favor is this:

Please vote for Baby Cameron Adams.

Cameron is Baby number 34, for the contest Baby Battle, the link is below.

How you vote:

Is by clicking on the link below, and fill out your name on the website, and thats how you submit your vote.

http://www.963wdvd.com//Article.asp?id=1238116

Whats at stake?

A YEAR long FREE diapers, if you have any children you know diaper cost a fortune!


Other Information:

You can vote once a day all the way up to April 3, 2009

Results:

I'll now the results on April 3, 2009, if Cameron makes it to the top 20!

If he makes it to the TOP 20:
I'll need everyone to vote one more time, to make sure he will be number 1!

I will post/blogg with the results and updates!

Thank you bunches for voting!
Thanks Cynthia

My herbs are growing!

Some of my herbs are finally growing, that I planted in my greenhouse.

So tomorrow I will be transfering those herbs into there pots!

Some of the hersb that are growing are:
- Chives
- Basil
- Rosemary ( I believe, Ill double check that tomorrow)

New Beginning

Okay I'm back to blogging, yeah!!

I was so sick the last few days, and there were a lot of things going on, but here I am back to blog!

Okay so I bought bigger pots and regular potting mix at Walmart, to transfer my tomato, and cucumber plants in there, untill it was warm enough to plat my plants outside in the garden.

After I planted the plants into the bigger pots, we where having some very nice weather here in Michigan, so I decided to put my plants outside for a couple f hours, for direct sunlight.

BUT one day I was spending the night out, I forgot to put my pots back into the house where it was nice and warm, and ofcourse that night it was about 28 degrees. So therefore my plants died from frost.

OEPS so I ofcourse have to replant my seeds back into the greenhouse. But right now in the greenhouse I have my herb seeds slowly sprouting, because the herbs weren't sprouting at all, so I planted new seeds in the greenhouse, Basil, and Chives are finally sprouting, now just waiting for the other ones, so I can transfer them to their original pots, and replant my cucumber, and tomato seeds!!!


AND when I was at walmart I bought some flower seeds, but I'm not starting those untll April/May that I know for sure they survive.

Cant Wait for the warm weather to come so I can really get this garden going!

So I have been really sick this whole day so I thought I would do a quick update, that I will be blogging about some changes I am going to make to my seeds that are in the pots, and the planting of the pellet greenhouse plant. So stay Tuned and I'm back to bed!

In need of some help

Okay I need to transfer my pellet greenhouse seeds to a bigger pot, now the question I'm facing, should I go to Walmart, and buy those big pots and put one plant in each pot, so they can grow.

Or

Do I place them in a pot like the herb for a little while and then move them to a bigger pot?!?!?!


I'm going to think about this, ofcourse not to long, because Ben, who also has a pellet greenhouse. Ben said in one of my comments "I shouldn't wait to long because some the plant might not survive. "

Check out Ben's blog

I just don't know

Okay so this morning I woke up and my seeds in my pellet greenhouse are growing FAST, they are defantly touching the top, so I don't know if I should take the top of and let them be, untill the roots start to show through the pellet. Which I believe that will be soon.

But my seeds that I attempted to grow in my pots they are NOT even sprouting yet.

P.S. I forgot which row were cucumber seeds and tomato seeds. So tomorrow I have some research to do!

EXTRA P.S. This morning I "killed" the weaker plant, not from every pellet because I wasn't sure which one is the stronget one yet, so I'm holding off on a few.

Look at them, they are so
squished

Wow, look at those tall little plants

This is one of them I'm not sure about

What a BEAUTY

Oh my....

Well as I posted how I went down to Indiana to see our family friends last week, I was hoping that they would start to sprout while I was gone

BUT.... my seeds I planted in my pots, are still NOT sprouting, BUT...the seeds I planted in my pellet greenhouse are ALREADY sprouting!!

I'm not sure why my pot seeds haven't sprout yet, but will hope buy this week that they sprout.
Some measurements I am doing to make sure they sprout (hopefully) make sure the soil is moist, therefore I water them everyday. An make sure I put them underneath a light.

I'm so excited that my greenhouse seeds are sprouting I can't wait, to see the roots come through the pellet so I can move it to my garden, if the last frost has passed, or temporarily place them into a bigger pot, where they could grow in.

Pictures of my sprouting seeds coming soon!!!

My Pellet Greenhouse!!

When me and Abbey went to Meijer to buy our seeds we saw this little ready to go green house. There were two choices cucumber, or tomato.

The other day I decided to go back to Meijer and get one of those, I decided to purchase the tomato and purchase a package of cucumber seeds. The pellet greenhouse came with 12 pellets, and a package of tomato seeds, all for $3.99!!!

When I was looking at other pellet greenhouses I also saw a "salsa garden" Which came with 3 pots I believed and all the seeds to make salsa with; chives, tomato, onion, and so on, you only had to buy some additional pots for the other seeds and they were selling that for $6.99


The brand I purchased was "Gardeners" "Giant Tomato Garden." That brand is pretty much the same thing as the other brands for example; "Quick'n Easy"

Once I got home; I read the directions it told me to add about 500 ml of warm water to the pellets so they would absorb the water and become a big "wide tube" of dirt, and any additional water you dumped out of the tray, were your pellets were placed.

This is what the pellet looks before you add water

And this is what the pellet looks when you added the water

Once you have added the water you add two seeds from your package. One row of six pellets I planted my tomato seeds, and the other remaining six pellets I planted my cucumber seed

Me planting my seed

And there it is in the middle of the pellet

Also after a couple of weeks 2-4 (box instructions) you must kill/take out the weaker seed/plant so the strong one can grow on and produce some veggies!! The box directions also said when the roots of the seed/plant started to grown through the pellet than its time to move the whole pellet into a pot, or into your garden.


You don't "ever" have to water your pellets because once you added the 500 ml of water all that water is absorbed by the pellets, therefore you don't have to water your pellets.



So now all you have to do is place your pellet greenhouse in a place that has sunlight or a place were you can place a lamp over it, just make sure its not to warm other wise the water will absorb way to fast.


And now you wait for about 8 to 10 days to see your cucumber, or tomato sprout (I hope that's the correct term)

And it really is as easy as 1-2-3

Out of town

So I got a message from my friend named Abbey, the one I bought my seeds with :-) And she said that here vegatables are already sprouting!!!

Well My aren't yet or at least they weren't yet when I was home

Which Here it is I hope my seeds wont be death when I come home on Sunday March 8th because I decided to go visit our family friends in Indiana.

What I did before I left I made sure the soil in the pots was about moist and covered them back up, and im hopen for the best when I get back home.

So I will keep you informed of one if they died or two my seeds decided to sprout when I was gone, keep your fingers crossed.

Planting the herb garden!

The next day or so which was about Febuary 28th of 2009 I planted my garden.

Here is a picture of all my supplies I used to creat my garden.

The first thing that I had to do was to create two drainage holes at the bottum of all my pots. To do that I took a hammer and about an 2 inch screw. I placed my pots on the plastic drainage tray so all the mess would stay in one place, nd it's easy clean up!

Once I have created Before I started I took all my eight pots and made 2 draining holes in the bottum of them. I cleanded my tray of by dumping evrything into thetrashcan and whipeing my tray off with an old dry rag.

After that I placed all my pots on my tray, and filled my pots with stones at the bottum. You place the stones in the bottum of your pot so if you over water your plants the extra water will drip down to the stones , and out the drainage hole. That way your plant isn't sitting in water all the time, which could cause molding and death :-(

Once the sontes were in placed I took the pea pot, which is biodegradable, and the plant will feed of the pea pot. The I dumped one and a half cup into the pots then i took the remainding pots I filled them with sand, and placed them into the pot. Now there are some problems that can happen one if you have to many stones your pots your pea pot will be above the rim of the pot. That was the main problem I had this problem with two to three pots.

When the pots are filled with sand its ready to plant your seeds! Most seed packages said about 1/2 to 1/4 inch deep to plant your seed. So I tryed my best to follow the directions made a small hole in the pot in the pea pot, that way the roots can feed of the pea pot which is inside of the pot. Then cover the hole back with sand.

When you planned the seeds I sprayed my plants so the soil is about moist. Use a spray bottle to water your gardening. Once you have waterd your plants, place see through like glad ware foil over your pots, you can secure the plastic foil with a rubber pant; see picture below. The reason why you want to use is because; that way the light can directly go to the plant, and its a lot easier to see if your plant finally peeked out of the soil. You want to keep the plastic on untill the seed/plant have finally come through the soil, to peak out into the real world. Once your seeds has peaked out go ahea take the plastic off but make sure you water it with a spray bottle, and that it still gets enough light.

Thats it thats how I planted my garden :-)

Seeds I planted in my pots were;

- Rosemary

- Green Beans (not a herb)

- Basil

- Garlic

- Pasley

- Peppers ( not a herb)

- Chives