Gardening Start

Alright, it has taken me forever to get a new blog post up, but I have a lot of posts back logged so I'll have lots up this weekend (hopefully).  Here's a quick one to tide everything over to the weekend.

Over the winter we've had a couple new additions to the family of plants that dad doesn't water.  I swear, he buys plants constantly and 80% of them would die if I didn't water them!  I can't tell you how many times I've heard "when was the last time we watered the plants?"  (sigh) I deal with so much. 

First off this is a lovely avocado plant!  I think Dad got this for mom for Christmas?  Or he randomly bought it on a whim?  Who knows, but it's been growing like a weed which is awesome!  I'm not sure if it will grow fruit any time soon (there are no flowers or buds, just leaves) but it's nice to have it growing.  It's a nice change to have plants in the house that aren't those stupid house plants that sit on the top of peoples' shelves and grow more dust than leaves!  But by golly they grow even if you don't water them. 

This little lovely is a lemon tree.  Dad got it for mom for her birthday.  It has been growing really fast as well and has a ton of flowers.  None of us know if it's self-pollinating or if it needs bees to pollinate it, so I've been dragging it out to the porch to hopefully entice the bees to it.  Sadly it's been chilly these past few weekends so I put the little lemon tree out on the back porch and the poor thing got all droopy because it was too cold.  Come on weather, it's MAY!  It's supposed to be WARM!  Sheesh.  I'm not sure if this one is going to produce fruit either (they say it takes three years) but the flowers sure smell nice!
 

And lastly, this is our garden!  Well it's what will be our garden.  Nothing is sprouting yet but these are what I've started the seeds in that we will transplant to the garden.  I've planted zucchini and squash and beans and pumpkins and herbs.  They need to sprout soon or I will be depressed.  Side note:  I'm totally installing a permanent perforated hose in the garden before we put plants in so all I have to do to water is hook the hose up and turn on the water and walk away.  It will get the water right at the base of the plants where it's needed and it will mean that I won't have to stand there for over an hour getting the whole garden!