New Cherry Tree

Over the weekend we bought a grafted cherry tree with Bing, Montmorency, Rainier varieties during our favorite nursery's opening weekend.  Since the weather out here is still a little iffy (can range from 30-60 degrees F from morning til night), we're still waiting to plant it for a few weeks.  Should take about three years for it to bear fruit and I can't wait to be able to pick multiple varieties of cherries all from our own backyard, although I wonder if multiple graft fruit trees fare any better, worse, or the same as regular single grafted trees...I guess only time will tell.  Also, I figure that once the tree starts baring fruit, depending on how well each graft fares, we might buy an additional tree of just that variety.

First blog post!

Biodome Seed Starter

My Little Garden Girl

Hello, this October our family finally put down roots and moved into our new "forever home".  Our backyard is basically empty, so with help from my trusty sidekick, Maddie, and Mel Bartholomew's book on square foot gardening, we plan on starting  a couple square foot gardens.  Last weekend, we bought  the supplies to make two 4x4 square foot gardens out of cedar.  One will be for vegetables and the other for a butterfly garden.  Above is a picture of some of the seedlings we've started in the bio dome from Park Seed.  Unfortunately, they're looking a little leggy, but I'm hoping that by the time we plant outside, they'll be okay.  I read that if you plant tomato seedlings sidewise, they'll start rooting all along the stem, so I may try that.

Anyone have any tips about starting/building a square foot garden?