Transplanting & Camping

Ahh finally Granola Girl is getting her crunchy ass back into the woods tomorrow. Yep I'm going camping for the first time in 2011. I'm pretty stoked, but yet I'm pretty worried because unlike camping with the hubby where we normally hike into the back country and rough it for a few days... I'm going with my lil sis and the brother in law who well um are not so rugged. And no we're not backpacking 10 miles into the back country of the Adirondack's. We're going car camping in Clarence Fahnestock State Park. Now I've never camped in Fahnestock Park so I'm pretty curious about it. I've driven thru the park countless times on our way to or from me and hub's favorite little Hudson River town of Cold Spring. You can learn a tad bit about Fahnestock here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Fahnestock_State_Park

I actually just realized thanks to this article that Clarence was in fact a man when all along I thought it was a woman. And theres really not a whole heck of a lot of info on the park so I guess I'm best off seeing it for myself. Not too mention I've been pretty keen on exploring the eastern side of the Hudson River Valley so it should be fun. And two of my girlfriends are driving up Saturday and camping out with us Saturday night. This will be my friend Caroline's first time ever camping so I'm pretty stoked for her to experience it all. And as far as lil sis and bro in law go, well they are pretty good sports so I'm really not too worried about them.

So with me being away all weekend, I worked feverishly on the garden since the weather is supposed to be premo these next several days. Last week I planted onions, radishes, peas, lettuce, kale and carrots. And now that its been over 10 days the radishes and onions have already sprouted! Saaaweeet! Its been raining pretty steady this past week on and off so I haven't had to water and I weeded a bit a few days ago. Things are looking good out there.

I also took some time and thinned out my seedlings that I started indoors. I had about an hour of semi warm temps on Tuesday after I got home from work so I brought the little guys out, picked out the strongest looking ones and transplanted them to bigger containers.

I was sort of bummed that I couldn't spare all the little dudes, but honestly I don't have the space for all the veggies I have planned for my little garden. So now what I have started are tomato's, cucumbers, chili peppers, bell peppers, jalepeno peppers and 2 butterfly bushes for a container.

Now that looks way better. I have other veggies planned but I am going to direct sow those seeds once the temps are a tad warmer. Anyway I've gots to sure up the rest of my gear for the weekend so I'll check back in next week. Happy May Day to y'all!