growing, growing, growing

My little garden is sure growing. I now have 3 bean plants, 7 zucchini plants, 6 cucumber plants, cilantro, garlic chives I already had growing and a bunch of cantaloupe seedlings. I wasn't planning on growing cantaloupe but I bought one a few weeks ago and dumped the food scraps along with cantaloupe seeds into the ground where I have the plants and a week or so later, they started sprouting. More are sprouting everyday. I'll find out how well they can do. :) It would be quite neat to be able to harvest my own cantaloupe. I'll have to make sure to fertilize them.
I bought a mini greenhouse kit made by Jiffy that came with 12 peat pellets and tray and dome. I also bought a packet of just the peat pellets peat pellets for any more seeds that I plan on starting.
These mini greenhouse kits would be a great craft for kids to do. They can choose what they want to grown and watch the seeds sprout indoors and plant them straight into the ground when ready. I'll definitly be doing that with my baby girl once she's old enough. She can have her own little plot of land for her garden in our backyard.
Oh yea, I found out what I have are
garlic chives.
Regular chives
are hollow in the middle but the ones I have are flat. I have 2 small pots of garlic chives growing and I cut some up to mix in with scrambled eggs for my baby girl and me to eat this morning. Yum! I love to put the garlic chives in just about anything. That's the way we chinese like to use garlic chives. I usually put them in scrambled eggs and in the meat filling for wontons or pan fried dumplings. Mmmmm! I need to make some pan fried dumplings. That's one of my hubby's favorite dishes that I make.
Several of the zucchini plants have quite a few flowers and one or 2 of them are opening up. I'm really excited now cause once the flowers are pollinated, I should start seeing the actual zucchinis. I am still seeing some whiteflies but the plants are doing fine so I will keep on misting the plants with water everyday.

Whiteflies

Did a search on the web and found out what the white bugs are that are on my zucchini plants. They are whiteflies. I wasn't surprised that marigolds are a natural way to get rid of these bugs. I remember I heard that planting marigolds are a natural way to control pests. I found on this website http://www.laters.com/plants/cucumber.htm that ladybugs like to eat them and that misting the plants with water will help. I think I already lost 3 of my zucchini plants to these whiteflies but I still have 5 other plants I'm hoping to keep alive. I'm all for natural ways of keeping pests away.

little white bugs on zucchini plant

Yikes, I went to transplant my zucchini seedlings into the ground and noticed there where tiny white bugs flying around when I moved the seedlings. Now to find out what can be done about them assuming I need to do something about them before they destroy my zucchini plants. If you happen upon my blog and know what to do about these bugs, please let me know. :)