sweetpea and progress

3 stages of pea plants, my favourite, its so cute

my cucumber plants are doing so well

beauty

basil progress

lettuce

thyme

The Big Greenhouse

I have recently joined and enviro group at school and am participating in a ghroup gardening project, vegtable garden and wildflower garden. Very exciting! heres some pics of the greenhouses from our first day of planting seedlings. We were lucky enough to get a tour of the rest of one of the green houses. enjoy!

this is the plant zoo as they call it, its just a collection of exotic specimens

Some super wierd crazy looking plant that I thought was interesting enough to share

very cool

tunnel of greenhouse

one of the smaller greenhouses

an experiment trying to get leaves to grow roots

fish in the greenhouse

Home Sweet Greenhouse

Day 1: The process of starting a vegtable garden indoors to get a head start

Puchased a pellet greenhouse kit from Canadian Tire equipped with 50 biodegradable fibre grow pellets with humidity dome. Big Up's to my boyfriend who hooked me up with the CT discount.

Chia Indoor Garden kit for growing herbs, a Christmas gift from my boyfriends sister, a thoughful gift if you ask me.

Step 2: hydrate the pellets with warm water, let the expansion begin

Before

After

The pellets grow instantly and quickly absorb water, great for indoor gardening as the mess is contained and you can keep your apartment clean as well as it's pretty cool to watch them expand and grow before your eyes. Now if only plants grew that fast.

Purchased new seeds from the Home Hardware just down the street from us. Seeds are only $0.49, practically a steal. baught my seeds last year from here for the same deal. It's in my blood to be a deal hunter and grow a bountiful garden. Perhaps I am a bounty hunter. Oh how much better the produce will taste knowing it was such a good deal!

A sampling of what types of vegtables I will be growing this summer. I also decided to grow forget-me-nots as they are my favourite and a butterfly mix of cutting flowers to brighten up the home and hopefully attract butterflies like it says.

Creating my own mini Greenhouse by using household plastic wrap to help incubate the seeds, above will be basil. Heres a little poem I wrote to speed up the growing process.

Hello, future pesto!

Germanate your seeds and grow

Sow your seeds and plant your roots

For us to eat your basil shoots

I'll be patient, but can hardly wait

To use you as a seasoning on my dinner plate

Now we patiently wait. Stay tuned for pictures of the sprouts.