Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 83 Entries. Saturday, February 19 View Page Happy 1st baby fred   Thursday, March 10 View Page Planted lettuce rosemary mint basil in this spot protected from snow hopefully   Friday, March 11 View Page It's early but we made this poster for st Patrick's day   Saturday, March 12 View Page Covered crop with potting soil to protect from cold   Monday, March 14 View Page Moon sand play ground   Monday, March 14 View Page At parade still playing in dirt   Thursday, March 17 View Page Leprechaun fertilizer   Thursday, March 17 View Page Leprechaun traps   Thursday, March 17 View Page Put row of atlantic giant pumpkin seeds (size of trike red/orange got from Fred Meyers north division grocery) in wet paper towel in plastic bag on oven. I did this with carrot seeds, and mammoth sunflower seeds as well.   Thursday, March 17 View Page Very windy! Awhile ago I placed rock shaped paver stones on potting soil on plant starts mint, basil, rosemary, & butter lettuce. Daughter placed windmill rainbow in that spot too.   Thursday, March 17 View Page Took seeds out of paper towels and zipped bags. Then put in trays of water. I soaked them while did leprechaun clean up. Pumpkin and sunflower dehusked tonight. Then back to water. Sunflower seeds doing clam opening. Need a lot of prayer for sprouting.   Thursday, March 17 View Page Surgery yesterday St. Patrick's Day winding down spring cleaning started did gutter clean up used debris as mulch topping   Monday, March 21 View Page Tipped out carrot seeds accidentally while they were perched on this pot holder a couple days ago. Not feeling good so to cheer myself up I YouTubed Robin Williams "golf" sketch. Was wondering what a version of him talking about BP would sound like.   Monday, March 21 View Page Took zoom class couple weeks ago from library. Contact: Kurt Madison WSU extension master gardener volunteer contact info: http://mastergardener.wsu.edu/ http://facebook.com/WSUMGProgram asked if the rhubarb a neighbor cut down to the dirt would come back he said yes. Also got info on some times of planting.   Monday, March 21 View Page WSU class April slide: early in month start tomatoes, peppers, & eggplant. Plant out onion sets, rhubarb, asparagus, & Jerusalem artichokes. Soil work amendments etc. prepare planting holes. Late in the month start cucumbers, melon, & squash seedlings. (This goes with the GPC zoom conference where a lot of big growers were saying start pumpkins April 12-15th.) Plant radishes (my seeds were duds so I just now saved the bottom roots of ones I cut and stored in screw top container with water from store), peas, chives, lettuce, & spinach. Cold season seedlings can plant out. Pot up or on more tender seedlings as needed.   Wednesday, March 23 View Page Excited pumpkin seeds are opening in water.   Thursday, March 24 View Page Time to plant corn "When the oak leaves are the size of a mouses ear," kids are learning Thanksgiving history with the aide of Charlie Brown video.   Friday, March 25 View Page Skagit festival last year daddy's 590# pumpkin   Friday, March 25 View Page Seeds were doing are from this pumpkin we’ll call it fred 2021   Friday, March 25 View Page Boys at Puyallup fair last year   Monday, March 28 View Page Last fall   Friday, April 1 View Page WSU garden in salkum wa at library   Tuesday, April 5 View Page Helper   Sunday, April 10 View Page "Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise." "The early bird gets the worm." "The sun will come out tomorrow..."Groundhog said 6 more weeks of winter so springs May 7th sounds about right near U.S.A.'s mothers day of mid may. So still got time but this winters got me down struggling to even want to continue. My seeds not doing good, but have been making strawberry freezer jam.   Monday, April 11 View Page Took kids to indoor egg hunt yesterday left early was hailing   Monday, April 11 View Page Cold supposed to be 27 degrees tonight   Wednesday, April 13 View Page Tossed mushy pumpkin seeds 2 of 10 soaked started to show germination. It's a good thing just practicing with the Fred 2021 seeds. I soaked them wayyy to long. Got alot of good advice from answered question I put on message board. Think I might try again on May day file side's with fine grit sandpaper not tip, then soaking in seaweed water. Next on heat pad in soil in egg cartons in sushi container. Don't have grow light or thermometer so they'll probably take longer to show up. Then if they sprout will plant when my helper comes back around mothers day/ his birthday. Tossed sunflower seeds too, but carrot ones are hardy finally got some showing germination. Helps that was unable to remove their shell/husks like I did the big pumpkin and sunflower ones.   Thursday, April 14 View Page Strawberry plants, freezer jam, & garden edging, fun never ends, and the bliss of not having an ex cussing and belittling me, just positive vibes here need to get cilantro may 5th is just around the corner, what's a good ant for star wars day?   Thursday, April 14 View Page Lol plant not ant ideas for star wars day lol love that auto correct no red would be the emperor soldiers as my brother told my son who wore a jacket from gma, my help didn't care he likes red, but I don't want red ants or black ones. Ideas for plants maybe star fruit for star wars day.   Thursday, April 14 View Page I got sunshine on a cloudy day, must be getting more sun as being titled “Luke’s Mom” I’ve noticed him getting more freckles, ground hog has his ways of telling weather I’ve got mine. Loving that kids cheesy smile.   Saturday, April 16 View Page Seedstarter mix Fred Meyers $10 16cu ft. Grower bulb like a regular light bulb but a 3watt north 40degrees store $10. Started to get more stuff but waiting on approval from owners of MHC for raised beds I’ve got some nails and wood I can make it from broken pantry cupboard, but the black gold ultimate outdoor dirt was $10 a big bag at Fred Meyers and it says 8 bags fill 144 sq ft. Crop blanket cover there was $10 3’x 50’ to maybe keep wind from blowing dirt away, can put x through it over plant. It was looking crazy how expensive all this is so I backed off. A green house which isn’t approved for where I live was $140 for a 6’x4’x6’. So glad I called kids Gma and manager before I went nuts. Got three in diapers that’s where the money goes.   Sunday, April 17 View Page Happy Easter, pink full moon this weekend spring is coming   Monday, April 18 View Page Helper got to see him, heard from him on Sunday. When defending goal he said “ not today” to ball. Took little kids to IHop didn’t realize till waiting that op was eyes and nose with red line as smile. Short trip, gotta make a long one tomorrow thinking might start seeds today so I leave them alone and don’t dig up to check their progress while gone to kids gmas.   Monday, April 18 View Page Looks like me and kiddos will try growing a ta mater wish us lucky charms luck the sweet kind not the posing nude getting lucky kind.   Monday, April 18 View Page Lucky charms picture didn't post earlier   Saturday, April 23 View Page 6 soaked no germination. Mineral wa fishing derby today 12:01am to 12:30pm. So plant seed of corn in mounds then put fish on top, that's how the Indians taught settlers apparently. So fish season starting farmers go fishing get some plant fertilizer.   Tuesday, April 26 View Page Easter egg gravy recipe on message board.   Thursday, April 28 View Page Egg gravy picture didn't post earlier   Sunday, May 1 View Page True love   Friday, May 20 View Page Tried to soak another set of 5 seeds again just scraped sides with finger nail cross your fingers for germination   Tuesday, May 24 View Page sling shot method of waiting for seeds to germinate   Monday, June 13 View Page Got some purple potatoes planted it big pots just a few for each with a basil planted on top of 3 of them.. Have a tomato planted in window garden box along with mint and something else I got from farmers market that sprouts tall. No luck on starting seeds, just tossed last attempt.   Saturday, June 25 View Page Getting dryer gotta water more. Give kids campfire snacks, And get seeds to start, this will be my try to get seeds to start trial and error time I suppose. Picked up more from seed library just gotta find them in the Bermuda trunk.   Saturday, June 25 View Page Getting dryer gotta water more. Give kids campfire snacks, And get seeds to start, this will be my try to get seeds to start trial and error time I suppose. Picked up more from seed library just gotta find them in the Bermuda trunk.   Saturday, July 2 View Page Rhubarb grew back great gave to a few neighbors I didn't want to make anything this year outta it too down   Monday, July 4 View Page Got some pepper plants one with a bud supposed to get really big. Might make some pepper jelly when grown if I'm not down. I'll Pick up a couple sunflower plants today and some tomato cages for them. Ill pick up pregnancy test too.   Monday, July 4 View Page Peppers planted raised garden containers in sunshine spaced around perimeter. Yay not pregnant good with 5. Youngest 16months had november covid 2020 when pregnant we both survived other kids not get it thank God. Transplanted tomato plant with peppers hope it   Monday, July 4 View Page Hope all the pups and vets made it through the 4th ok   Thursday, July 14 View Page Got lots of varieties of tomatoes been watering with shower head sprinkler on hose. Purple potatoes are flourishing. Sunflowers got a couple lines ones popping. Thinking of bringing some plants inside to protect during next hot 10days.   Thursday, July 14 View Page Kids are awesome we potted chives, marjoram, cabbage, & spearmint. Still gotta figure out tomatoes. Gotta be gone for a few days so thinking about leaving them in kiddies pool as a raised garden.   Saturday, July 16 View Page Found lots of big pumpkin weigh off sites sent some of the entry dates to my kids dad. I won't enter this year for anything I think I do have sunflowers and alot of tomatoes but nothing record breaking. Never could get my pumpkin seeds to start. Think I'll homeschool this year and let kids experiment.   Saturday, July 30 View Page Mt. Rainer on the way home, watering plants raised tomatoes beds eith hose,, nd potted plants with empty bottles inverted to slow release water it's great but with this heat plants are sucking it all up alot faster one plant didn't that had larger bottle then little pot could suck up but rest I watered with hose and filled water bottles, picked up a cooling bed for puppy, took kids to splash pool after seeing gpa.   Sunday, July 31 View Page Love this little spokane river, stay cool!   Friday, August 5 View Page Happy 6th Luke!   Monday, August 8 View Page Well got tomatoes but nothing dropped two or 3 off one stem so not giants but yum flavorful   Thursday, August 11 View Page SWW fair on 16th, Clayton fair on 27th, and so many others idk if I can do them this year. I'll probably make scones at home, have kids make something from garden, take puppy for training courses at home, and get fred to crawl race his siblings the boys a thunder crawler but too old for fair entry.   Sunday, August 14 View Page My 5 little pumpkins.   Monday, August 15 View Page My 5 little pumpkins   Saturday, August 20 View Page Fred's 1&1/2 it's been 6 monthsish of diary entries learned a little enjoyed everyone's growing seasons. Gotta lot to learn for next year.   Saturday, September 3 View Page Got some 10-10-10 fertilizer for tomatoes neighbor grew a big pound one that's what was used, I was refeeding tomatoes to roots.Trying to water twice a week. Rotate between grass and garden pots. I also have water containers that slow release water on off days.   Sunday, September 11 View Page Gerrys big pumpkin at spokane interstate fair. Guessed weight around 1234# Luke's guess, 1236# Susan's guess 2nd biggest there was around 800#   Friday, September 16 View Page Fertilized last week got more tomato blooms. Susan wants to try pumpkin from seed told her we'd try today but not feeling great maybe Monday.   Thursday, September 22 View Page Congratulations Joel Holland on skagit, sincerely Joel "fred"ric.   Monday, October 3 View Page Kent weigh off didn't bring anything myself to weigh my tomatoes are smaller then grocery store ones never did get pumpkin seeds done with Susan, I'm in a Grey area AM I a grower. I shouldn't answer non grower questions cause on my own I look up info on giant Pumpkins and tomatoes.   Tuesday, October 4 View Page Yesterday's sun rise how's the saying go red sky in morning sailors take warning red sky at night sailors delight?   Sunday, October 16 View Page Ready for football season now, done with getting hit on ass by exs towel etc though.   Thursday, October 20 View Page Trying to find most light in lot with neighbor building more fence and shade cloths hanging on them have even less, heat lights i got need ballasts so their out, well theres always glow sticks lol Light show cat whiskers sported by Susan she'll be 5 near end of month.   Thursday, October 27 View Page A lot to still learn, pumpkin carving some 100# ones at Fred Meyers but just doing little ones to carve this weekend, good luck to those needing to move and carve giants maybe try going to deer parks free equipment testing class on November 5th see picture   Monday, October 31 View Page Bobbing for apples, pumpkin carving/gutting, and trick or treating Happy Halloween   Thursday, November 3 View Page Hope y’all had a happy Halloween and all souls day   Thursday, November 3 View Page Hope y’all had a happy Halloween and all souls day   Tuesday, November 8 View Page Luke carved by himself with butter knife, quick picture before tossed last week.   Sunday, November 13 View Page Wasn’t ready for snow picked some tomatoes green off vines today nothing big so not weighed. Couple of orange peppers too brought some mint plants inside and green onions on deck first year here neighbor on one side shares garden wisdom b4 moved on other side different neighbor adds shade cloth to fence to block what little light tomatoes got. Oh well will try the Fred ‘21 seed again next year will see it it grows have snake heat pad and grow bulb didn’t use this year.   Monday, November 14 View Page Guess mother natures helping me add nitrogen to the soil   Friday, November 25 View Page lavender, I’ve seen purple potatoes and white pumpkins, wonder if I can grow a lavender pumpkin? Painting from movie Mona Lisa’s smile. Hope we can all smile after thanksgiving drama. Happy Black Friday!   Sunday, November 27 View Page Lavender must painting makes me wonder where is the lavender pumpkins? Susan just had a bday her dad told her what present got her but now says he’s donating it instead.no worries her favorite color is purple maybe we car grow a lavender pumpkin next year?   Saturday, December 3 View Page Gma passed a year ago today. Have moved pots of green onion in bathroom. Merry Christmas season.   Sunday, December 4 View Page Gma passed a year ago today. Have moved pots of green onion in bathroom. Merry Christmas season.   Tuesday, December 6 View Page Reindeer Santa tree lighting. Put Pumpkins in compost. Had a multicolored stack at end of driveway and assortment of gourds in nomes wheelbarrow. Got rid of old stuff.   Saturday, December 10 View Page Got lights up and drove and saw some lights up my favorite was one set to music station on radio. Getting more s**w wonder if my tomato plants will be covered in the s**t?   Saturday, December 24 View Page Santa’s milk kid tested   Saturday, December 31 View Page Happy New Years eve   Saturday, December 31 View Page Happy New Years eve