happy squee!

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Today I got to spend a bit over three hours talking about gardening online with a friend! That was tons of fun. I feel like such an expert... :P  Really, it was more, lookie what I found, and look over here, and so and so said to do this, and I read that you can do it like this...

It was fun, and if anyone else wants to IM with me about gardening stuff, I am SO THERE!

After that, I went out to the garden to do a little cultivation. I wanted to break up the half circle bed, to start getting it ready for the beans that'll go in there. I must say, I love the new hoe we got. :) I broke up that section, cut out and pulled out some tree roots (the tree has been cut down, so they're just relics), and worked in some of the compost I'd spread in there.

Then, I went into the sunroom to start some more seeds. I put in tomatoes, okra, cucumber, and three varieties of pepper. I'd picked out, from the new seeds we got in, the squashes to direct sow. So, I went out to sow them.

I'd used sticks stuck in the ground to mark where I'd put the stuff I'd put in on Monday. I figured I'd put the new stuff near it's five day older brothers, just for convenience. I looked for my stick markers, and I found them. I also found something else...

My seeds came up!

All of them!  The cucumbers, the zucchini, the spaghetti squash, and the melons! All up! In five days!

I nearly died of the happy.

So, my baby plants have been joined out there by a golden variety of zucchini, yellow crookneck squash, an acorn squash, a butternut squash, and hale's best melon. Two hills of each. :D

(oh, there is something out there eating my new baby plants, too. I'm a bit irked by this... the spaghetti squash babies had holes, and one of the hills of melons had been eaten down to one tiny plant... die, pest, die.

After I got the new seeds in, I pruned back the tomatoes. A lot. I took one completely out, as it wasn't doing well at all, and pruned one down to just a stub (I want to see if it'll come back, since it had a couple of suckers I left on...) I took cuttings from everything, and stuck them in recycled jars and bottles with water to try to root them. Cherokee purple, arkansas traveller, rio grande and rutgers. Here's hoping!

I'm so silly happy about my seeds coming up, I think I'll just float on the endorphins for a while...

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[reginaterrae.livejournal.com]

Congrats!