All the pretty blooms

I'm behind with posting photos of what's going on in my garden. A new addition is bleeding heart, perfect for a shady spot. I love the dainty heart-shaped flowers. Since I'm crazy about perennials, I'm looking for white bleeding heart too.

I've been busy transplanting in containers and getting the garden ready for moving to a new house! We have plenty of packing to do. I also recently started a new seasonal part-time job as a merchandise representative for Kellogg Garden Products. Based in California, they've been around since 1925 and recently brought their products to Idaho. I sell OMRI® listed organic soil, excellent stuff and I use it. I'm having fun giving gardening advice, it's rewarding when customers tell me how thankful they are that I've helped them. I'm assigned to work until July or perhaps August depending on the company's decision.

Pink tulips are in a container and so are my other plants. It would be easier to move this way. I'm really into pink as you can see.

Just to make my garden more interesting, here's something red for a change. I brought home Dianthus, Scent First Passion and it's a perennial. I'm excited to see this plant become established with more blooms.

Violas last year I planted on the raised bed came back recently. Considered annuals, they're known to reseed. I have to pull them out to transplant in containers. My husband said the petals resemble a face. Do you see the yellow nose?

Update on edibles. Here's my new setup in our garage and my seedlings are happy here with fluorescent lights. Hubby gave me many garden gifts and a chrome rack for my birthday (yay!) because I run out of room for seedlings every year. For now, I'm using two shelves out of five.

I started from seeds tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, Swiss chard, kale, radicchio, broccoli, bok choy, leeks, basil, thyme and various flowers. The tomatoes I planted in early March (bottom pic) are lush and they're getting very tall. I transplanted everything using Kellogg soil and my plants are looking healthy. 

I highly recommend liquid seaweed for fertilizing once a week. This is my third year using this amazing organic fertilizer. Seaweed are loaded with nutrients, contains trace minerals, aids with preventing transplant shock and prevents diseases. Read more about seaweed and let me know if you'll try it. 

Enjoy your garden and happy Tuesday!   

Flowers from the show, my seedlings and more

The weather has been cloudy everyday with rain in the forecast. It's too cold and dreary to go outside and work on my garden. I've been longing to transplant the flowers I bought at the Boise garden show. I'll have to write about that eventually. I'm excited about my new clematis hoping I'll be successful with it this time. I also came home with perennial native plants and flowers that went on sale at the end of the event. There were many things I wanted but I convinced myself to stick with the budget. Going to the show was my first time and it sure inspired the gardener in me.    

Veggies I started from seeds in early March are doing great and growing fast. It was time to transplant them, well at least the tomatoes and lettuce. It took a few hours to transplant with many more to do. My seedlings are in the garage because we don't have room in our house. It seems that I run out of room every year with everything I plant.     

 

The tomatoes are looking healthy. They'll get bigger in these containers and pretty soon we'll have juicy and delicious tomatoes –– I can't wait.
 

We found a larger home and we're moving at the end of May. The backyard is not huge (less grass and maintenance) but it's perfect and I already have a rough draft plan for my raised beds. The funny thing is, the house is only down the street and our current landlords owns it too. They're wonderful and we're glad we get to rent from them.

The lady that lives in the house we're moving to likes ours and she'll be living alone when her grandson moves out. She's downsizing and will be moving to our place so we're swapping houses. We're staying there to rent for a while as we save to buy a house. 

We'll be crazy busy moving and moving my garden. I did this before so here we go again. I'll keep you posted!