Beautiful Weekend!

Alright! Friday, saturday, and sunday were all gorgeous days! In the 70s with bright skys and lots of sun for the ole garden! The lettuce is doing good. It's kind of funny, when I water the side of the garden with the H2O2 solution the ground gets all white and bubbly just like when you put hydrogen peroxide on a cut. Since h2o2 kills bacteria, I am wondering how much of a good thing this is. Does this help with the prevention of diseases and rots, or doe it go to far in killing off helpful bacteria in the soil?? Not really sure on this one and not sure that I have any way to really be able to find out - down side of a purely unscientific experiment I guess.

As of right now, though, I would say that it looks like the water side is doing better, but I think that it is purely due to the fact that there are more plants on that side right now - I had gotten a little heavy with the seeds. I am going to let them get to be a bit taller - maybe an inch or so before doing a first round of thinning. It is WAY to early to make any calls one way or another.

I also started my tomato seeds on Saturday. I got my Campbell Soup seeds in the mail and am attempting to grow those. I say attempting b/c I have not had to much luck with tomatoes in the past. I have them starting in my free starting tray - actually a left over container from cracker barrel (thanks to Joe the Gardener for the great idea - I'm actually using the toilet paper rolls as well for for the starter containers). One little catch though, dumb ass me forgot to soak half of the seeds in the H2O2 before planting them. Oh well, I will just work with watering them with the solution instead. The rest of my seeds from Victory Seed Company were just shipped so I will have to remember to soak them first.

It is raining today, so no watering is needed. Which just reminded me that I need to set out my rain buckets. Sure I could get honest to goodness rain barrels, but who has the mone for that?! I have a couple of trash cans that I use to collect rain water with and set out a number of large tubs around the house on the roof corners to collect rainwater that is falling. So now I am all wet.