Spring/Summer Garden 2012 - Feb. 18th Update

This will be our 2nd Spring/Summer Gardening experience and we wanted to document it somehow.  My husband (Sankofa) and I (Uni) decided to start a blog to help document our gardening.  Last year was an overall success for first time gardeners.  We are extremely excited to engage in our 2nd Spring/Summer gardening session with all of the things we have learned this past year.

February 2nd, we started our first flat of seeds.  This flat included tomatoes, tomatillos, okra, hummingbird sage, and nasturtiums.  We bought a lot of these seed starting flats from Wal-Mart last year, used them, and are reusing them again.  (Gotta love the upcycling).

The pics below show the seed flats about 9 days after seeding.  All of the tomatoes, tomatillos, and nasturtiums sprouted!!!!  Only 1 hummingbird sage and okra so far.

Today, February 18th, we are transplanting the seedlings into their second flat.  We used good ol' potting soil from one of our favorite nurseries (Enchanted Garden).  To amend the soil we used products from our favorite gardening supply shops called GardenVille. The two products we used to amend the soil are: Rocket Fuel and Sea Tea.

Rocket Fuel is great for transplants and seedlings.  It includes: Colloidal Rock Phosphate, Bat Guano, Greensand, Red Phosphate, Volcanite, Brewers Yeast, Premium Fertilizer 7-2-2, Earth Worm Castings, Zeolite, Diatomaceous Earth, Alfalfa Meal,  Kelp Meal and Molasses.

 The Sea Tea is a liquid fertilizer that consists of: Compost tea, Fish emulsion, Molasses, Humicid, Phosphoricid, Nutri-Leaf Soluble Fertilizer and Acadian Seaweed Extract.









This is the time of year that is tricky.  We have to set up shop inside the house to keep the seedlings protected from some of the cold weather we are still receiving here in Houston.  We set-up a table under our bar with some grow lights until the seedlings are reading to make their way outside in the greenhouse.

And here is the finished product....for today.  We will keep you updated on our progress!!!!