That was it?

On a side note, the events of this post actually happened today! I've been posting about things from memory that had already happened a few days previous, but I'm finally caught up. Yay!

Anyways, after church, lunch, and putting Mr. 2-year-old-monster down for a nap, Jeremiah and I went out back to plan some seeds. I wasn't sure how many I was going to do but I knew I wanted to start the peas today.

I spend a good while watering my dirt. I know that you're not supposed to be able to over water mel's mix. Any extra water will just drain out. So I watered until I started seeing water coming out of the drain holes in the bottom of the box. It took quite a while longer than I thought it was going to. I has the hose on pretty low, but that dirt just seem to keep on soaking up the water. Eventually it did start dripping out the bottom, and we got to planting!

We poked holes, and Jeremiah got to put the seeds in and cover the holes back up. That was easy! So on to the next set of seeds. A few minutes later, all the seeds I intended to plant where in the dirt.

All I have left to do are they transplants that I don't have yet. We only planted half a square of carrots, and I'll plant the other half in two weeks to help spread out the harvest. But yea, the planting part was a whole lot easier than I was expecting.

Here's that same picture from before. What you didn't know was that this is actually after the seeds were planted!

From 2011 Garden

What's that shiney thing in the front square? That is my answer to sprouting carrot seeds. I don't remember where I learned it, but when I grew some carrots in Alaska I covered them with plastic wrap to make sure they stay nice and moist until they sprout. So what you see is a zip lock back sliced open and held down by some small rocks. Lets hope it works just as well here in Utah as it did in Alaska.