Sunday, 15 April 2012

The Chalet's Garden

We call it a chalet in french, in English it would be cottage but it's more of a second house where we live our week-ends.  It a woodlot situated in front of a lake.  I obviously have a lot space to build a garden there.

I only started to do so yesterday because we finished the construction of the house about a month ago and I took some breaks.  Of course, the plans were in my head for a while and I knew what I was going to do.

Thursday, 5 April 2012

Help me ID these plants!

I just came back from school and I found these plants with their pots next to a garbage bin with a "We Need Help :(" sign.  Can someone help me identify them so I can properly take care of them?

Tomatosphère Tomatoes

I got these seeds from a teacher who worked in collaboration with the NASA. She wants me to try them in my aquaponics system.

1st Batch of Garden Seeds Planted!

Yesterday, I planted some seeds.  Half of these will be kept for the aquaponics setup and the others will go in my garden.

For this, I usually use some plastic flower pots I reuse.  This year, I decided to try the famous newspaper seed-starting pots.  The pros and cons of them: