Today was an unusually difficult day at work. I had to lay off an employee and it felt awful. This wasn't the first time I've done this and it doesn't get any easier. I stuck to the script and made it through with the support of my peers and team. I am blown away by the number of people who ask how I was doing. I was very glad when the work day was behind me.
I was happy to come home to my wonderful husband who had bought me some beautiful Calla Lilies and later picked up dinner for a post-yoga meal.
Now that I have cleared my head about my work day I thought I would post some updates on our veggie seedlings. I haven't posted many updates because i was a little embarrassed about their progress. We had some trouble with our plant lights and decided to give them some fresh air and sunlight one day when we headed off to work. Sadly it was a windy day and many of them didn't make it but the strong have survived. My motto for the day. Almost all of the cucumbers have new leaves and the one remaining watermelon does as well. The Basil is slow out of the gate but I have high hopes. The tomatoes also have some new leaves starting so I am feeling good about having lots of cherry tomatoes come summer.
Hopefully we will plant our remaining seeds this week so we don't pay nursery prices for flowers in the garden.
Ron and I brought my Miata to the Natural Gardener today to avoid buying out the place with things we don't need just yet. We went specifically to buy the Square Foot Gardening book by Mel Bartholomew. We have already measured out our space but wanted some guidance on what to plant with what in each section. http://www.squarefootgardening.com/
As you know we have already started seeds to plant in our garden but we do plan on also adding Zinnias and Marigolds to add some color and help prevent bugs (seemed to work last year so i'm not going to mess with a good thing). The progress of our seeds is still positive but i'm wanting things to happen faster. The changes aren't quite as drastic.
We plan to start another tray of seeds today for our Star of Texas Hibiscus & an unknown named plant from which we harvested seeds last year. This will be our first time trying that and hopefully it works, i don't see why it won't.
