Geddie's

February 17th-
This planting thing was going so well we decided to go ahead and start planting our radish seeds and lettuce seeds, as well as broccoli & cauliflower plants.

Keep in mind when you are planting the seasons. A lot of people new to gardening are anxious to start planting as soon as it starts to warm up. Like in the photos we are all in short sleeves and the sun is shinning and its late February. If you jump ahead and start planting warmer season plants like tomatoes, you run a good chance that we'll have another freeze and it will wipe them out. So with gardening, patience is a virtue!

Once again we used the handle of an old rake to make the troughs to put the lettuce and radish seeds into.

  Tommy just walked along the row and pressing slightly with the end made a somewhat straight line along the top of the row.

 Who needs a seeder? He used his hands to slowly drop the seeds into the trough. Although its not rocket science, we knew using this method once the plants started growing we would have to come back and thin them out.

 Doing it the proper way, using a seeder will ensure your seeds are evenly spaced for optimum growth.

You can see the tiny red colored radish seeds in this picture.

The lettuce was just slowly sprinkled from the seed pouch into the trough.

Here you can see the little white colored lettuce seeds.

 
Time to cover them up and tuck them in to grow. Tommy gently covered them with the dirt so as not to disturb them and lightly patted it down.

 Time for some good ole watering to get them good and moist.  We used our tower sprinkler to water in the lettuce & radish seeds as well as the newly planted onions.