Today I threw in a few plants and a few seeds to my new garden just as the sun was going down and it started to rain. I’m glad I’m finally getting things started! The rest of the plants will be already started. I don’t know what it is, but I’ve NEVER had luck starting tomatoes from seed. I have a theory that everybody has that one plant, no matter how long they’ve been gardening for, that they can’t start from seed. For me, it’s tomatoes. I just don’t know what it is.

So besides the tomatoes I like to think I’m pretty hip to the whole seed-starting thing. So today I took my ever abundant tin and tromped out to my new plot and planted some plants I had picked up over the past week and a half and some seeds.

Already planted plants are:
Rosemary
Thyme
Lavender
Primula

Seeds started:
Calendula
Carrot
Spinich
Borage
Bee balm
Dill
Lime basil

I’ve purposefully left enough space for two tomato plants on the left hand side of the plot.

I was talking to the guy who lives upstairs today and he asked if I could move my plot to the other side of the house, closest to my door because my plot is “in a weird spot”. I told him that I had already put down my mushroom manure and the like and didn’t really want to move it (I mean, I had spend like two hours digging the damned thing up!). He was nice about it, he’s kind of weird about the lawn, but he did tell me that it used to be a car park there a few years ago which totally explains the weird bits of metal and glass that I’ve been finding as I dig and mix the soil.

I’m glad I’m doing a soil test too, because it’ll be nice to make sure that whatever was there before hasn’t polluted the soil. I should have the results from the test back this week or early next week.

Also, since the guy upstairs is thinking of digging up by my door anyway, I might go ahead and do it and just plant a nice big flower garden. Lots of echinacea and rudbeckia and calendula (my three favourite naturally occuring flowers around here!).

Another reason I wasn’t too gung ho about moving my garden right by my door is that it’s right next to a busy street and I’m not too keen on growing edibles with all that car exhaust all over it. At least on the other side of the house there’s a nice barrier between that and the street (although I’ll still probably wash them all really well with a peroxide/water mix anyway).

I believe that’s all for now - I’m not planting anymore until I get my soil test results back. $63 for the test! But at least I’ll have some sort of piece of mind.

Lavender and bee balm stake: