Growing a green thumb

The past few years we have been slowly expanding our garden. Years ago we had a few pots with tomatoes and peppers on the back deck, then the next year our pots grew bigger, then we made a raised garden box so that we could grow a few more things.
This year we're going to make 2 more raised garden boxes so we can expand even more because we're having so much fun!
I decided to be ambitious, and frugal, this year and start as many of our plants from seed, so we needed to start early to get more growing time.
Since this spring came early and warm, we had luck right from the start with our seeds!

March 9th
Simeon, Ammon and Rebecca planted sweet peas, pumpkins and tomatoes.



Within days we have little pea and pumpkin sprouts. The tomatoes took a little longer to start coming up.
The containers got funky being in the house like the directions said to do, so we started taking them outside during the day to help dry them out some and prevent more funky stuff on the pots. It helped stop any new funk from starting.

March 18th
Just 9 days later and the peas and pumpkins were already an inch tall! They were starting to shoot roots out the bottom of their containers.



Mrach 19th
The girls had so much fun transplanting the peas and pumpkins into to their bigger temporary home. Their roots were all over the outside of their pots.



March 26th
The peas weren't doing so good in their pots. The potting soil was drying out to quickly and they were starting to get too droopy each afternoon. They got moved to the permanent home in the the garden. Within hours one of the plants had already attached it little green vine to the support lines strung for them!
The pumpkins stayed in their pots because it was still early from them to go in the ground.

April 1st
Today we planted another 2 rows of peas directly into the garden. We're hopeful that they will do as well as the first batch we planted.

Ammon took this picture of me putting up the support line above the new pea seeds we planted tonight. You can see the green onions growing nice and tall in this picture. Last year these were as thin as a blade of grass. This year they are already so thick and tall.

We are loving watching the process from little dry seed, to sprout, to leaves and growth and spilling out of the pots growth! We're excited to see what these plants will produce this summer. We're thinking that we might even try to save some seeds from our crops to grow next years crop.

It's been just less then a month and we have so much growth from these little seeds. It's really helped build our confidence in our growing green thumbs that we have so much growth already! Now I know why my dad loved growing a garden so much. I find myself going out and checking on the plants more often the kids do!

In a few months I may be rethinking the idea of having so many pumpkin plants growing in our yard!!