Planting the Seeds of Success?

I spent all afternoon yesterday outside in the garden. My kids played and rode their bikes and my husband helped me weed dandelions and dig holes. I transplanted some Daffodils (I know wrong time of year, but it had to get done or they were going to die anyway) and planted some purple Wandering Jew that I got from my sister last fall and rooted in water in the windowsill thorough the winter.

I also planted my carrot seeds and decided I really dislike the peat pots. I prefer plastic, but went with peat and there's no turning back now. It rained last night, and snowed/sleeted this morning but was only 36 degrees so I think my plants will be ok. Only thing I am really worried about is the Wandering Jew because the herbs should be fine.


I will attack the fire ants this week weather permitting, so my hubby can finish getting the garden spot ready. I need to map out my planting areas, and get some strawberry plants set out asap. I also got more seeds in the mail yesterday. I received Okra, same variety as last year which really produced for us (Annie Oakley), Yellow Summer Squash, Zuccini, and Sweet Corn. I did not plant zuccini or corn last year so we'll see how it comes out this year.

Gardening Has Officially Begun!

The weather finally warmed up enough and the sun came out long enough yesterday to get outside and do some much needed maintenance. Since I am still recovering from surgery I did not get much done before I had to stop, but I did manage to weed a bit around my sidewalk path and pull up some not so pretty anymore plastic path lights that we are replacing with (hopefully) better quality stainless steel ones. My first 3 daffodils bloomed and I would post pics, but my darling 5 year old daughter picked them all. So I guess we can settle fora pic from last year for now. Those are the path lights I removed, there were 12 total.

My wonderful husband weeded my entire flower bed, raked the yard, and started weeding the garden spot which looked really good except for the huge fire ant mound at one end. I will try the boiling water method to get rid of them and if that doesn't work dirty mop water had killed them before and if they are still kicking after that I guess I will have to resort to poison/pesticide which I really don't want to do since I want to try and stay as organic as possible, but fire ants are nasty little critters and very hard to get rid of.

I am starting my seeds this afternoon and will post some more pics then. I have blueberries starting to bud, strawberry plants to try and get out, and seeds to start. It is supposed to rain this weekend. I was looking forward to a nice sunny weekend like yesterday and today, I certainly hope I can get at least one day of stuff done this weekend so my hubby can get the garden spot ready.