More Than Just a Hobby...A Lifestyle!

Alright so my intention was to post part of my Gardening timeline every day until I got caught up to current happenings in the garden...but shit happens and that's not how it went down so, now we have to play catch up, starting from April 1st to June 30th and I'll probably spam post until we get to now, August 18th and then post seasonal, monthly and weekly throughout the year until I get a good rhythm. So let's get right into it:

4/1/18 - Got new stuff - Drawer for Garden to organize things, Watering can, Spray bottle, Bypass Pruner, 2 bags of Jiffy Seed Starting Mix, Pots & Containers (various sizes), Seeds - Kale (Dwarf Blue Curled, Vate's Strain), Oregano, Cantaloupe (harvested from fruit), Watermelon (Sugar Baby - Compact), Aloe Vera Sappling.
Updates: A random seedling popped up in a Tomato plant #4.

• Bell Pepper #1 had drooped over and wasn't being supported by roots at soil level, I dug it out and reworked the the soil to better support the stem, shortly wilted but bounced back!
• Biggest Basil plants' (3/4) stem is bent and leaning over, still growing and healthy but leaning over.
• Quite a few pepper starts are dying oddly, they will be thinned tomorrow.
• Mangoes (despite #2 constantly trying to mold or fungus) are looking great great! Seed #1 is putting out a 2nd root along main root and stem has its' first little leaves and will planted in a large pot tomorrow, lots transplanting will be done on the 2nd!

4/2/18 - Will plant - Mango #1, Yellow Onion, Aloe Vera, Cucumber, Kale, Oregano, Cantaloupe, Watermelon, Pepperoncini Peppers, Ginger.
Will Transplant - Cilantro, Bell Pepper #2, and other seedlings - Cilantro in other pots, other Echinacea. Prune 2 Tomato tops to see what happens.
To-Do List: put all same herbs in same big pots
Planted: Mango #1, Yellow Onion, Aloe Vera, Cucumber, Kale, Oregano, Cantaloupe, Watermelon, Ginger
Transplanted: All Cilantro, Basil #3

4/3/18 - To-Do List - Make Hydrogen Peroxide + watyer mixture for fungus and algea and apply to affected plants

4/4/28 - Watered Everything in the Garden

4/5/18 - Watered plants where needed, Snipped off some bad leaves on Tomato plants.
Updates: Kale, Cucumber and Cantaloupe sprouts are wonderful and Thriving, Oregano sprouts are popping up, Mango Seed #1 is spreading it's wings (Leaves) and is standing straight up, Mango Seed #2's roots snapped and is possibly sending out a new root on the side of the original root, the newly pruned Tomato plant is sending out side shoots as expected, Watermelons are sprouting now

4/7/18 - Watered Everything

4/8/18 - Compost Bin 2.0/1.2 Made

4/9/18 - Watered where needed, snipped bad parts from Tomatoes, Soaked Mango Seed #3, Added to Compost and shook it up, pruned 4 separate Basil plants, Moved around plants under lights to get different results.

4/10/18 - Thinned Bell peppers to Healthiest plants
Planted: Pepperoncini Peppers, Lemon, more Cilantro & Sage
Pruned another Basil plant, Propagated Basil top in water successfully.

4/12/18 - Watered thirsty plants, snipped off bad leaves on Tomato plants

4/14/18 - Watered where needed.
Updates: Propagated Basil is spawning roots, Mango Tree exploded with huge leaf growth, gourds are doing very very well and will need to be thinned and transplanted soon.

4/25/18 - watered everything that needed to be, sprayed tomato plants with baking soda solution to reduce the effects of whatever is affecting them, changed water in Mango seeds 3 & 4.
To-Do list (checked off):
- Transplanted Lemon Tree Babies into their own cups
- Checked on progress of Ginger #1 and if not ok or not seeding out roots, compost and start over
- Transplanted Sage #3 in with the rest of the Sage
- Transplanted Propagated Basil & big Tomato in big together
- Transplanted best looking Bell Pepper seddlings
- Planted Rosemary (Seed pack), Blackberry (from Store bought), Mini Sweet Pepper (from Store bought). Organic Bell Pepper(from Store bought)

4/30/18 - Updates: Mango Tree #1 has 4 new leaves that are growing fast, gourd plants are growing Tendrils next to first flowers (probably male...they were), Kale is bushing out with lots of new leaves, 4 Lemon trees have sprouted and possibly a 5th next to the first, Have been pinching and snipping off bad leaves here and there, Tossed out 4 bad Tomatoes in compost bin

5/1/18 - Pruned bad leaves leaves off different plants, Harvested some Basil, Harvested a bit of Cilantro, Watered thirsty plants, Moved plants around

5/4/18 - Pruned bad leaves off plants
Updates: Mango #1's 2nd or 3rd set of leaves are almost fully green and and is about to start next leaf set, flower buds (I think) are showing up on every plant just about, Bell Peppers & Tomatoes are starting to put out buds for flowers, Onion is layering up, Sage is very plentiful.
Transplanted: Tomatoes and Tomato with Basil into huge pot, Both Bell Peppers, Lemon Babies, Good Bell Peppers, baby Sage in with other Sage
Scrapped Pepperoncini starts
Planted: Rosemary...again, Dino Kale, Organic Bell Pepper, Buttercrunch Lettuce, Georgia Green Collards, Mini Sweet Pepper, Blackberry

5/9/18 - Sprouts of Dino Kale, BC Lettuce & GG Collards have shown up, watered the seedlings

5/26/18 - Bought: 3 Bags (3 cubic feet) of Earthgro Potting soil, 2 Large pots, 4' Bamboo stakes, All purpose Jobes Organics 4-4-4 Organic Fertilizer, 2 clamp light bases, Plastic Hand trowel, Hemp string multipack, 2 L.E.D. Flood lights lights (1500 Lumens), 1 L.E.D. bulb (1650 Lumens), Seeds: Granex Yellow Hybrid Onion, Bloomsdale Spinach, Roma Tomato.
Planted: Spinach, Roma Tomato, Onion, Red grape
Transplanted: Both BS Tomatoes with propagated Basil and Basil #2 (x3 Stems) in new big pot, Both Bell Pepper plants - Moved next batch of remaining Bell Pepper starts into a cup and put it in the soil with the 2 big Bell Peppers big pot to make room from other plants on tables, All 3 Cucumbers, All 3 Watermelons, All 3 Cantaloupe, Mini Sweet pepper seedlings, Dino Kale seedlings, GG Collards seedlings, BC Lettuce seedlings, Fertilized everything

6/26/18 - Last 3 Days; Soaked: Grass seeds for fast compost (turns out it was wild wheat or some kind of grain), Rosemary...again, Tossed soaked Papaya seeds in cup - over seeded - for max germination, Chopped top off of huge tomato and propagated it in water, Snipped lowest stems from propagated Basil (x4) and Re-propagated them
Transplanted: x2 Roma Tomato plants, Sage seedlings with other Sage plants,
Planted: Avocado Seeds x2 straight into soil, 2 of each - Curly & Dino Kale, GG collards, BC Lettuce, Oregano, Cilantro, Yellow Onion, Lavender, Red Grape, Echinacea, Pepperoncini Pepper, Soaked Mango Seed.
Will Harvest Basil for the Grove St. People's Market on Thursday the 28th, Compost is Full!

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And that covers April to Junes happenings in the Garden. Shortly after I started using the new soil and Fertilizer there was an outbreak of Fungus Gnats that I'm still dealing with today...I started using a Neem Oil spray and it worked great but not completely because I just ran out of Neem Oil, which was only an ounce but, I will be ordering some more very soon along with Peppermint Essential Oil to make a new supercharged Organic Pesticide to get rid of them finally. They have killed off many of my plants which you will hear about in the next post I make here on Steemit...which I really wish had an app because I could make more posts more frequently.

I had a poll for the name of the Garden as a business cuz I was undecided between 2 options and have concluded from a separate suggestion that will be in a Future blog...dun dun dun suspense...yea I know but I will reveal it soon, Don't hold your breathe though...see you next time!