Winter garden update

            Well another year with the winter garden.  This makes year two.  Over all I’m not sure if it was better or worse then last year.  It was planned a little bit better.  My plants were all started from seed and we had a good variety going.  However, a nice little caterpillar decided to take up home in my tomatoes so the little bugger ate all my tomato leaves and blossoms so that never really ever recovered.  Otherwise I really would have been in AWESOME shape for the winter with at least cherry tomatoes.  We had fresh peppers all the way until Christmas this year which was fantastic.  The herbs still need a little work, but maybe this year.  This biggest thing that killed us this year was actually the wood stove.  What we thought would be fantastic for the heat that it would give off but it ended up being our downside this year only because we didn’t keep up with the watering.  Great news is that now we know that the water reserves that were our down fall last year might well be the best thing ever come next year when we go for try number three.  We’ll be starting it up early this year.  Once everything else is in we’ll get it going for next year and make sure all the herbs are nice and happy by the time august comes around.  Live and learn and I am bound and determine to get this right yet. 

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Finding homes for them

Finding homes for almost 70 plants inside is no easy task.  This year we plan on burning wood so I’ve lost the top of the wood stove which housed quite a few of my plants last year.  We’ve also expanded our winter garden this year.  We did however manage to get quite a few hooks put up so that I can finally hang plants in front of the windows this year.  That has helped tremendously.  Now it’s just finding the time to finish and keep up on the watering.  I’m finding that a lot of them are lot more thirsty now that they are inside then they were on the outside.  I think I have finally gotten catch up in the watering.  Now the trick is to stay on top of it.  I’ve managed to make the family room pretty cozy which is super nice.  It will be fun to sit around this winter surrounded by green fun. 

Top of the 6 ft table that is completely full

Floor of the table

There's a lot of them.  And for the most part they have all found homes.  I totally have a jungle in my house.  There's also a crazy variety of plants in this collection.  Never really appreciated how much I have until it's all crammed together in one tiny spot.  Some think it's crazy, but it's my craziness and I wouldn't have it any other way.