Gardening Time - Ordering seeds

 

    One of my favorite times of year is the time where I get to plan my garden and order seeds. I love seeds, because I love plants. This year we are going to work a lot on growing our plants from seeds. I’m hoping to grow enough plants to have them for my garden and be able to sell them cheap ($0.50-$1) Just to cover the cost of the seeds and stuff we need for the garden. I don’t want to make a profit. I just want to cover my cost. I mean you get 300 onion seeds, I won’t need 300, if I can sell then to make up the difference that would be amazing. If not, I will give them away.

I’m chancing the way we are eating and also need spring and fall crops. From Baker Creek, I ordered onions, spinach, kale, broccoli, cauliflower, luffa (I know I need that seed). I also ordered their Catalog, honestly that was the reason I went to their site. I love their catalog, it has so much awesome info in it. I can’t wait for the seeds to come in.

I also placed an order with Urban Farmer. This will be the 1^st time I order through them. I got a coupon for 15% off for Cyber Monday. I need potato seeds for the year and asparagus, for the new asparagus garden. I will transfer asparagus roots we have but new roots will be nice too. I’m hoping that this company is better than the last one I used.

What seeds are you ordering for the year? Would you rather start from seeds or buy transplants? Check out my other 18-17 weeks before average date of last frost goals. Let me know what you are doing in the garden.

Gardening Goals ~ 18-17 Weeks Before Average Frost Date

The Week-by-Week Vegetable Gardener’s Handbook has flipped to the being again. This is one reasons I love this book so much. I can use it over and over again. Can you believe we are going to start seeds for 2021 Garden!!! I’m so excited. 2020 Gardening has harvested 151.28lbs of food! 😄 My goal was 100 lbs. We are still harvesting celery, rosemary, and sage out of the garden. My garden has become completely kid friendly, meaning nothing but water is going on it. My littles are little most are 3 and under, they grab food and eat it. I don’t want them to fear eating anything.

18-17 Weeks before average frost date

v  Clean up around the green house. Work on organizing it.

v  Place Seed orders- The magazines will be coming in soon, but I know there are something I want no matter what. I want to get them ordered.

v  Paint the roof of the Green house. It has been painted in a few years. I want it to last a long time. Painting it will help.

v  Hook up the heat to the green house.

v  Sow Herbs – Start Thyme and Parsley seeds.

v  Sow Vegetables – Start Onion and leeks.

v  Start to plan next year’s gardens. What do I want to grow?

I am so thankful this year for having the time to get back into my garden.  Know COVID-19 was a huge pain, but it did give me so much time for my garden and a chance to geek out about it. We have plans to extent it this year. Then it will be as big as I want it until we decide if we want to move or not. What are you doing in your garden?

 

Daily Goals - November 30, 2020

        It’s been a busy week here and that is why I haven’t gotten on. Littler sick, thanksgiving party with the littles, college girl came home, thanksgiving, family drama. Therefore, I have been focused on other things.

       I cooked Thanksgiving meal for my family we had 13 people expected, but only 11 came. It was perfect. How was your thanksgiving?

Today’s Goals

·         Work- I work from 6:30am-6pm today. We are learning about the letter Gg this week.

·         Workout – Last week because I was off a few days I didn’t get up and workout. Time to get back in it. I also started my new waist trainer today. Oh My Goodness. It is tight. Not can’t move tight, but you can tell my body is ready for this. 

·         Dinner – Tonight is dinner with my parents at Red Lobster. Free meal, is a great idea.

·         Set up my goals for the week. I didn’t set up my goals. Which always makes me feel bad.

·         Cyber Monday – Put in my 2 orders. One at Trim Healthy Mama and the other Herbal Zine.

    What are your goals for today? Let me know

November 21,20202

Its Saturday! I got to sleep in. It felt amazing to sleep in and not be rushed to get up. Now sitting and doing my 7 days of gratitude challenge the church sent out. They want social media to be flooded with thankfulness instead for hate. It makes sense this is a stressful time. If we see thing that people are thankful for, we start to think about what we are thankful for. We need love and caring to get though these times. Not hate, we never need hate. Yesterday I wrote about my Amazing loving husband. Today I wrote about my awesome mother. It feels amazing to start the day think about something you are truly thankful for and to tell the world. It makes the rest of my day be happy.  I will upload the post later today so you guys can know too what I thankful for. Feel free to join us! You don’t have to be Mormon, to be thankful. You just have to be you. Use hashtag #givethanks and let the world be full of love!

Today’s Goals

·         Clean – I really need to work on cleaning the house. Thanksgiving is coming soon, time to deep clean

·         Gardening time – Put plants in the greenhouse. I don’t want to lost my mosquito plants.

·         Shopping – Today hubby and I have a lot of shopping to do. Local areas are starting the shut down again. We don’t want to run out of stuff. We will stock up now, and the we will be good for a long time. Honestly, I think that is best.

Yesterday's Goals

·         Workout/Meditation – I got my workout in early this morning. I feel so much better Work- I work for 6:30-5:30ish.  Even the kids are seeming to get into the meditation. I stop halve way though just to see what was going on and the we are either sleeping or laying and listening. This is such an amazing skill to have in life. To be able to stop and clear your mind.

·         I am so excited for our letter F fun today. We are going to learn about farm animals! One of my friends are bring her farm animals over. We are going to get to pet baby goats, and piglets! I’m so excited for the kids. The animals came over! The kids loved it! It was so much fun! They played with them for about 2 hours.

·         Clean – I really need to work on cleaning the house. Thanksgiving is coming soon, time to deep clean. Didn’t get to this.

·         Gardening time – Put plants in the greenhouse. I don’t want to lost my mosquito plants. Hubby took a nap at naptime; family swears sleepy music puts them to sleep too. Then when he got up, he had Friday shop class with my nephew! My nephew looks so forward to this time with his uncle. He isn’t a daycare kid then and he gets to do older things as the kids’ nap. It’s a great way for them to bonded. Have strong loving men in a boy’s life is so good for them. Because something you don’t want to tell your parent stuff so having other people to trust is need. My family is so strong on this idea.

·         Friends – We are planning on having friends come over tonight. Though it might not happen. It is what is planned. Hubby end up canceling. The littles were crazy, I feel like two of them are getting sick and I have something go on. Littles that don’t feel good aren’t fun. So last night because Greys night. Honest that was so sad. Hubby and I now have to do an end of life plans. I want it to be written what happens to me and him so we know what to do.

I don’t have a lot of goals, shopping will be awhile because we have to go to Costco and the Restaurant store, and they are about 20 min in opposite directions from where we live. We also have to then come back and hit Lowes. That will be busy then cleaning will make it busier. What do you have planned for today?

Daily Goals - November 20, 2020

 

Happy Friday! I’m so happy. Hubby took care of the dog last night. Which means I got to sleep though the night. I feel 100% better and even got my workout in. I love Country Heat work out. It just so uplifting. I feel better after it and not counting down the minutes. It is cardio so next month won’t be.

Today’s Goals

·         Work- I work for 6:30-5:30ish. I am so excited for our letter F fun today. We are going to learn about farm animals! One of my friends are bring her farm animals over. We are going to get to pet baby goats, and piglets! I’m so excited for the kids.

·         Clean – I really need to work on cleaning the house. Thanksgiving is coming soon, time to deep clean

·         Gardening time – Put plants in the greenhouse. I don’t want to lost my mosquito plants.

·         Workout/Meditation – I got my workout in early this morning. I feel so much better doing it. The kids are getting use to the meditation. My 7 year old little, is starting to understand why we have to do it or at least that Miss Melissa needs to have 10 mins of quiet. (Which is true 10 minutes to recharge is doing amazing wonders for me)

·         Friends – We are planning on having friends come over tonight. Though it might not happen. It is what is planned.

Yesterday’s Goals

·         Work- I work from 6:30am-6pm. We are learning about the letter Ff this week. We have so much fun with Frogs. We will learn some songs, hop around and have a lot of fun. We had so much fun learning about frogs. We had fun sing the 5 little speckle frog song.

·         Clean – I really need to work on cleaning the house. Thanksgiving is coming soon, time to deep clean. House is clean but not very deep cleaned. I didn’t get to that. We were busy yesterday.

·         Gardening time – Put plants in the greenhouse. I don’t want to lost my mosquito plants. Life moved to fast for this. It is so hard to get outside without littles, when I gets dark early. I hope during naptime hubby can sit with the kids for a few so I can get it done today.

·         Yoga/Meditation – Not getting up took my workout time a way. But yoga and meditation will still help me. I got my meditation in but not yoga.

Again somedays I do better than others. I have 3-6 kids, I have to homeschool 2^nd and preschool and have babies. I also vacuum and mop the house every morning. We have all hot meals though out the day. I have lesson plans, hugs and kiss to give out, outside fun. It is a lot. But I love every minute of it.

Kids Kroner - Letter Ff

 

                                                    Letter Ff week!

We are going to have so much fun with the letter Ff! Learning happens most when kids are having fun, we learn many ways. Our music time is going to be a YouTube play list for the letter “Ff” songs about the letter Ff and songs about things that start with the letter Ff. I am making a sensory bin this week with fish and blue rice. We will be reading story about the things that start with the letter F. We do sit down worksheet too, and art crafts.

Here is what this week will look like

Ø  Monday

o    Learning time – Letter Ff book and letter Ff tracing paper.

o   Art time – N/A

Ø  Tuesday

o   Learning time – Farm animal play and sing songs

o   Art time – N/A

Ø  Wednesday

o   Learning time – One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish color page, line trace paper

o   Art time – Make red fish and blue fish puppets

Ø  Thursday

o   Learning time – Frog color page, tracing words, tracing paper

o   Art time – Frog cup

Ø  Friday           

o   Learning time – Farm color page, tracing paper

o   Art time – Sheep painting with cotton balls 

We will also do a science experiment, make pick ink with one fish. I also have a huge surprise for the kids, we are going to have a few baby farm animals come over on Friday.  I’m so excited for this learning week.

Daily Goals - November 19, 2020

 

Happy Thursday! Today is going to be a busy day. I have 6 littles. And we will be having some hopping fun. Though getting out of bed was so hard. It is cold here in Pa 30 degrees last night. Putting the dog out at 2am made me not want to get out of bed. Plus I didn’t set my alarms. What are something you do to wake up in the morning.

Today’s Goals

·         Work- I work from 6:30am-6pm. We are learning about the letter Ff this week. We have so much fun with Frogs. We will learn some songs, hop around and have a lot of fun.

·         Clean – I really need to work on cleaning the house. Thanksgiving is coming soon, time to deep clean

·         Gardening time – Put plants in the greenhouse. I don’t want to lost my mosquito plants.

·         Yoga/Meditation – Not getting up took my workout time a way. But yoga and meditation will still help me.

I didn’t get much of my goals done yesterday. I need to get focusing, but like I said these are goals. I do a million things in a day and somedays it takes all day.