Spring Sunshine

The verdict is in, I have officially decided that this is parsley and the oregano never bothered to spring forth from the dirt.

However, I fixed the problem by buying some new seed, so eventually I will be able to enjoy some dish with parsley and oregano.....oh and basil, the seed was near the oregano, ...yeah and dill, I am not sure what sort of impulse buy that was, ......oh yeah, and rosemary - it just smelled good. My own little window herb garden, they may one day outgrow their pots but for now it adds a nice touch of green.

The new oregano seed making a welcome appearance beneath the parsley.

Enjoying watching those little plants jump up out of the soil....

and watching them grow....check out those zinnias.

Uhh, yeah, I didn't plant this tomato, it was a gift from one of my patients, she didn't tell me exactly what kind of tomato it was, but she was thinking cherry tomato.

Another experiment....I am hoping a success, some would sa

y it is an easy thing to do, but it is new to me and thus a new sort of challenge.....but it has led me to have some fear....fear that my worms will die. Yes, I am drying out some vermicomposting.

A view of my worm bin after the worms have entered their new home.

A blurry pictures, but you can kind of see one of the worms.

Feeding my worms some chopped up broccoli found in the back of my fridge. (Perhaps I should get a veggie board like my sisters - at inkspotsandcoffestains.blogspot.com oh well, this way I have food for my worms).

Winter Gardening

Seed catalogs....the gardener's long awaited treatment for winter blues. However if your eyes are good you might be able to read the CD on top is "A Little Drummer Boy". This catalog arrived, that's right before Christmas. That's okay, I was still excited and a little giddy.

However with the holidays, I'm not sure where it currently is .... I could use it about now. Just the other day, I heard someone say they had tomato starts in their window. Mine may be a week or two or three yet, but soon.

We will see if I start that or my new Pasta Herb Seed kit, a gift from my neighbor, with instructions for me to have them over for supper once the herbs are ready for eating. I need to get them started, because there can be no epic fail with conditions like that and I have eye surgery planned for the end of March and the last time I had eye surgery, my ambition dropped dramatically.

Another exciting thing is this rain gauge, I found at a discount store. I have been wanting to get a rain gauge, and I'm partial to dragonflies, so I could hardly pass it by. I have yet to decide where to put it.

Looking forward to playing in the dirt....