Gardening - 19 Weeks Before Last Frost (2016 Garden) - Weekly Goals

     Can you believe it is the 2nd week into 2016 Gardening year!?! I can't. This week is still a lot of dreaming about my garden for the year. I love that I just get to think about what I want and go for it. 

Weekly Goals 

1. Plan gardens around - I use Garden Plan Pro. You can check out my review on this app on my post "Gardening tips - Gardening App". I have so many garden areas to plant and so many ideas in my head. 
2. Seed Inventory- I need to go throw my though my 3 seed boxes and pull out what I need for the house gardens. I will put them in the binder to. 
3.  Inventory seed starting supplies - Check my pots and make sure I have what I need to start planting my seeds. 
4.  Check over gardening tools - make sure I have all the tools I need. That they are cleaned and ready to go. 

     This week will be more putting my dreams on paper. I'm so excited. What are your goals for this week?

     I do know most of you are on different weeks than me because your zones are different. You can always go back and see my weekly wrap ups. 

           Gardening - Weekly Goals Weekly Wrap ups

Gardening - 20 Weeks before last frost - Gardening Goals Wrap up

Gardening - 20 Weeks Before My Last Frost (Garden 2016) - Weekly GoalsWrap Up

Organized group seeds

     I was so excited about this week to restarted my " Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener's HandBook" by Ron Kujawski and Jennifer Kujawski. If you don't own this book, BUY it. It is such a huge help. I use it to help me set my weekly garden goals. It is also filled with amazingly awesome information. 

Planning my Veggie Garden

Here were the gardening goals for last week. 

1. Plan garden - I use Garden Plan Pro. I love this app. You can check out my review on this app on my post "Gardening tips - Gardening App". - I did this goal this week! You can checkout   how I did it at Gardening - 20 Weeks Before Last Frost (2016 Garden) - Planning Veggie Garden. I am so excited to see my plans in my head to be on paper. 
2.  Inventory seed starting supplies - check my pots and make sure I have what I need to start. - I started this goal, but I didn't get far. I have so many pots to wash so I'm not marking this as done and adding it to next week's goals. 
3. Check over gardening tools - make sure I have all the tools I need. That they are cleaned and ready to go. - I didn't get to this goal. 

I added two more goals to this week. 

1. Inventory Seeds - I did this in Gardening - 20 Weeks Before Last Frost (2016 Garden) - Inventroying seeds. - I decide it was important to look though the seeds I have and make sure that they were still good. I also thought it was a good idea to know what seeds I still needed. (They would make awesome stocking stockers for Hubby) 
2. 2016 Garden Binder - I decide on Wednesday, I would start this goal. I wanted in place that I could put the seeds I need and the plans for the garden. I also like that when I go into the binder and put the seeds I need to plant. I will tell you more about this idea later. 

Insisde of the binder 

     This week is the start of 2016 Gardens. I love this week because I got to dream of my garden and the way I want it to look. This week was the easy week.

You can checkout all my 20 Weeks Before last frost post here
Gardening - 20 weeks before my last frost 2016 -weekly Goals
Gardening - 20 Weeks Before Last Frost (2016 Garden) - Inventroying seeds
Gardening- 20 weeks before last frost (2016 garden) - planning veggiegarden

Gardening- 20 weeks before last frost (2016 garden) - planning veggiegarden

My Veggies Gardening Plan

     This week my gardening goals was "Plan garden - I use Garden Plan Pro. I love this app. You can check out my review on this app on my post" This will be in my goals for then next few weeks. I have a huge veggie garden area and then gardens around the yard. This week I worked on my veggie garden. I have used my Garden Plan Pro app. 

The seeds I need

     This year I want to plan a lot of veggies. I want to be able to can them and save them though the winter. I want to save more organic non-GMO crops so we are eating healthier. I have set some small goals. 

The plan so far

    You will see that there are place that I have more then one crop they are Companion crops. Companion crops work together to help keep away the weeds, bad bugs and provide nutrients to each. 

Print our of my seeds that I need 

     Now that I have a plan, it is time to start to look what seeds I have that are good and what seeds I have that are bad.   

Other post about 20 weeks before my last frost 
Gardening - 20 weeks before my last frost 2016 -weekly goals

Gardening - 20 weeks before my last frost 2016 -weekly goals

My book, hot coco, and the garden plans in my mind

     Time to pull out my trust gardening book and get back to gardening! I love my Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener's Handbook, by Ron Kujawski and Jennerifer Kujawski. Today is the 1st day of 2016 garden. I have huge dreams for the garden this year.  When do you start to plan your garden? What dreams do you have for it?

Weekly Goals

1.  Plan garden - I use Garden Plan Pro. I love this app. You can check out my review on this app on my post "Gardening tips - Gardening App".
2.  Inventory seed starting supplies - check my pots and make sure I have what I need to start. 
3.  Check over gardening tools - make sure I have all the tools I need. That they are cleaned and ready to go. 

     I know your thinking there isn't many goals this week. Plan a garden alone can take a while. What are you doing this week to get ready for your 2016 garden? 

Monthly Goals for November 2015

     November is going to be a busy month. I have set a lot of goals this month. There is a lot going on too. My favorite holiday is this month! It is Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving it is the only holiday that can't be over taking by gifts. 😊

Start of my monthly goals for my binder 

Monthly Goals 

1.  Workout- I want to workout everyday according to the T25 workout program. The days I workout I will mark with a sticker. 
2. Cooking- stick to my monthly menu and don't eat out. If I stick to the menu I will be on THM most of the time. This will help me get healthlier. 
3. Healthy Eating - Eat every 3 hours, and try to keep it on my THM program. Also I want to work on giving up sugar. This will be hard because I'm not going to add any stevia to my diet right now. 
4. Personal - I want to take a weekly photo of how I'm doing with losing weight as getting healthier. I also want to only use the scale once a week. 
5. Gardening- start to post more with what is going on in my garden. I really have not  been posting what I'm doing. 
6. Gardening - I want to pick 5 things this month to learn about and post something I learned about them daily on Facebook.
7. Gardening -  I want to plant Mums and mulch around my fruit trees. 
8. Church - I want to have my weekly lesson plans planned by Wednesday of each week. 
9. Home - I want to keep up on keeping the house clean and stick to the cleaning schedules. 
10. Family - I want to have a Family Home Evening (FHM) once a week. 

     These are the major things I would like to do this month. This helps me sticking to my yearly goals by breaking them down. I also can feel like I did something this month and not let the holiday stuff over take me. What are your goals in November? 

      

Cooking - Weekly Menu

     It's time to get back to my THM lifestyle! Break from it and I gained back to good amount of weight. With most of the recipes you can adjust it for your family and what works best for them. 

SEP 28 - MONDAY
breakfast	(THM-S) Coffee With Protien
lunch	(THM-S) Turkey Wrap
lunch	Red Pepper
lunch	Strawberries
snacks	(THM-E) Yogurt
dinner	(THM-S) Taco Salad
SEP 29 - TUESDAY
breakfast	(THM-E) Peach Oatmeal
lunch	Beef And Vegetable Soup
snacks	Almonds
snacks	Cheese Stick
dinner	(THM-E) Chicken Breasts With Sweet Potatoes
SEP 30 - WEDNESDAY
breakfast	(THM-S) Strawberry Cheesecake Smoothie
lunch	(THM-S) Chicken Salad With Dressing
snacks	(THM-E) Yogurt
dinner	Chicken Dumplings
OCT 01 - THURSDAY
breakfast	(THM-E) Peach Oatmeal
lunch	(THM-S) Chicken Salad wrap
lunch	Cucumbers
lunch	Blueberries
snacks	(THM-S) Wasa Crackers
snacks	Laugh Cow Cheese
dinner	(THM-E) Chili
OCT 02 - FRIDAY
breakfast	(THM-S) Strawberry Cheesecake Smoothie
lunch	(THM-S) Taco Salad
dinner	(THM-E) Chili Salad
OCT 03 - SATURDAY
breakfast	(THM-S) Egg omelet With Green Peppers, Mushroom And Laughing Cow Cheese
lunch	(THM-E) Chicken Breasts With Sweet Potatoes
dinner	(THM-S) Egg roll In An Bowl
OCT 04 - SUNDAY
breakfast	(THM-E) Carrot Cake Smoothie
lunch	Leftover
dinner	Leftovers

 

     This is the family menu for this week. I will change it a little person in the family so they will eat it. This is what we are planning. What are you doing this week for dinner? 

Pinterest Find of the Day ~ Canning Tomatoes

    
     Did you ever wanted how many tomato plants do I need to have a pantry of tomato products for the year? I have. I love the idea of having my homemade tomato sauce on all our food. This will let me know my family is eating healthy and organic food. It will take out BPA, pesticides, and other chemical they add to the food.

Here is my find

     Here is a awesome site I found on Pinterest about knowing how many tomato plants it takes to fill up  my pantry.  According to Kris Bordessa  at Attainable Sustainable, she need 17-25 plants to feeed her family. Looking at what she has canned I think I would need half that amount. Which leads me to plant 9-13 tomato plants for my family. Check out her whole article Tomato Math -How Many Plant is Enough .   

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