Yes, it’s gardening time again. I figured since I should be in country this summer (or at least for the majority of it… you never know what could happen), I’d try it again this year.

I container garden, since I live in an apartment and have no yard. :) I got my tomatoes started a while ago, but “thanks” to Chris’ cat, I had to start them over. Yes, Chris’ cat. MY cat would never eat my tomato sprouts, so she is now Chris’ cat whenever we talk about the tomato incident.

So, I started again. I also found a site that showed how you can start your bean-type seeds in a ziplock bag in the window. So, I now have 3 bags of seeds, 1 each for green beans, radishes and cucumbers. I realize that the cucumbers probably won’t work like this, but I tried the “normal” way and that didn’t work for me either, so, I thought I’d try it anyhow. Chris says I have to wait a full 3 days before I can open the bags and look at them, which is in about 5 hours. :) Yes, I’m a little excited. Just ask my friend, Sher, whom I gardening “with” via the internet.

I also tried to start my tomatoes again, but I had to figure out a way to keep my, I mean, Chris’ cat out of my plants. I read about how you can use a 2L pop bottle as a sort of “green house” for your seedlings. So, I had Chris cut 3 bottles apart for me. It worked. Not only did the cat stay out of them, but they sprouted and are growing nicely in their little homes. We were also given some “cat grass” to grow… not quite catnip, but more for their digestive system, I suppose. That’s growing there, too. Hopefully this will be a deterrent for the cat as well.

In anticipation of my radishes sprouting today, I dug out one of the flower boxes I’m going to plant them in, found my potting soil outside and filled it up to warm it in the house. It’s still about 45″ outside, so these will be living in my living room on the window sill, if I can keep Chris’ cat out of them. Grr.

So, all in all, I plan to grow tomatoes (which I have done, successfully in the past on my balcony), green beans, radishes & cucumbers. Hopefully we’ll have a nice harvest over the next number of months.