Baby Steps to Our Organic Kitchen

I'll admit - I don't have a clue about what I'm doing.

Okay - maybe a small one.  I have grown flowers from seeds a time or two (and succeeded, to my own pleasant surprise).

I am definitely...ummm...green (sorry for the pun).

So - here is a small glimpse at our first baby steps toward our organic kitchen.

First of all - here is what's currently growing.

Stop!  Do not congratulate me yet! My mother-in-law planted these shoots back in mid-October.  You are looking at 3 kinds of lettuce: butter, chrystal, and rucola, swiss chard and onions.


Here is what I've started.

This is what can be planted right away.

The seeds in the middle - in the plastic bag - are rhubarb seeds that actually came from from shoots from my grandma's rhubarb plant! Makes it sort of special!

This is what has to wait for warmer days

My markers

I was sort of excited about finding these biodegradable pots.  No transplanting. Just plop them in the ground!

Grow, grow, grow little seeds.

I do have comfort knowing that if I do not succeed with the seeds, that I will be getting more shoots from my mother-in-law.  My fallback plan!

Oh - and let me introduce you to Tiggar.

He is a wild cat that adopted us as his new family - and has quickly proven that he is in fact easy to spoil.  *grin*  Just so long as he keeps the mice population down.  So far he's doing an excellent job.

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