Well, today is a typical Texas Winter day. Merely seven days ago the temperature was in the single digits, and today it is 80 degrees. So since it was a lot warmer today and very windy, I decided that today would be a good day to water the garden. So that's what I did. I took 15 minutes or so to water parts of the garden, mostly the veggie and flower grow beds.
In addition to manually watering, I gathered supplies to create another water line made of garden hoses and drip system parts to create a mist watering system in a small green house that I bought in January. Hopefully I will finish this small project tomorrow or over the next few days.
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Today we planted seeds for sweet baby carrots, mesclun lettuce, and spinach. The entire seed packets were sown, so hopefully we will get a lot of seedlings in a few weeks. Once planted the seeds were covered with a metal mesh to protect the seeds from squirrels, cats, and birds.
We also planted a variety of onion bulbs in our new mini-greenhouse. In the image to the right the planted onions are beneath the newly added dirt, which are the darker colored areas of the soil.
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I bought a fine mister about a year ago. I bought it in hopes that it would not only water the plants but that it would also lower the temperature a little during our hot Texas Summers. Water can cool temperatures in a greenhouse if the mist particles are small enough.
I have been working on installing the mister over the past few days by running irrigation tubing. I had to order some part from Lowe's online store as my local store didn't have the parts I needed. The parts came in this past Monday, so I picked them up, and I finished installing the irrigation tubing and parts needed for connecting the mister.
The mister has been installed and tested successfully. Now I merely have to replace some rubber seals near the faucet to stop leakage.
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A few weeks ago I planted some carrots, lettuce, and spinach. They have sprouted and are small seedlings as shown in the picture.
I planted some old beet seeds as well. However, I'm not sure if they will germinate as the seeds are quite old. The sticks indicate the rows where the beets are planted.
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A few days have past. Not a lot of activity other than some seedling have grown a little more as seen in the pictures below. These are from the seedlings in the small greenhouse.
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Planted some beets from seeds. I think these seeds will do better than the other beet seeds I had planted. The others were old and never did 
emerge. I planted these in two rows in between the other, older beet seeds that I had planted.
There were also a pansy that needed to be transplanted. The pansy had been grown from seed in the small greenhouse. This one has turned out to be a blue and white flowered pansy. 
Planted some impatiens seeds to a large pot I had bought from Walmart several years ago. I figured that the pot might as well be put to use, so impatiens seemed to be a good fit. 
In addition to planting beets and impatiens, I planted some cherry tomato seeds. These I planted in two places. I planted about half of the seed pack into the ground and the other half were planted into pots. Some of the pots were 12" pots while the others were repurposed cat liter plastic bins.
As an experiment I planted some zinnia seeds into an old aluminum baking pan and into an old food tray.
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Not a lot of growth in the garden. But here is a picture of a primrose that recently bloomed in the past few days.
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Had another pansy that had to be transplanted. It had a white and purple bloom on it. In the picture the primrose plants can also be seen. Found some primrose in bloom, so I snapped this picture of them. 
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We have a lot of primroses blooming. The primrose patch has, for the most part, taken over this flower bed. The blooms are cheerful to see. 
Transplanted yet another two pansy plants what were grown from seed. One was yellow while the other was a purple hue. 
And as a surprise, one of the Larkspur plants bloomed. 
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The primrose patch continues to bloom with a freshly cut lawn in the background. 
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The garden seems to be becoming more and more active each day now. Of course the primrose is doing well as can be seen from the photo on the left.
About a week ago, a Night Sky petunia was added to the primrose patch. We had seen one of these petunias on the website of a local plant nursery, and we decided to get it. It has a deep red bloom with yellow accents on it. Some of the yellow accents are spotted while others are larger.
One of the rose bushes bloomed. The name of the rose is a Pinker Bell rose bush. This rose bush was planted about a year ago, and it continues to do well. It is surrounded by primrose blooms and is near the Night Sky petunia.
The larkspur has put out a few more blooms. Its purple blooms are clearly distinguished from the surrounding green. 
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The lettuce is doing quite well. It is very tasty as well.
Had some red clover sprout up from seeds previously planted.
And the primrose continues to do well. 
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