SEEDS ARE GETTING BIG!

15th Mar 2021 classyclassicsbykandisLeave a comment

Good morning, welcome back to Classy Classics By Kandis! Happy Monday, how are you today?

Can you believe it is already the middle of March! This month always goes by really fast I assume it’s because this month it’s my birthday month!

This week’s blog I was going to transplant all of those little seeds that I started getting the other plants into bigger pots and are ready to start more seeds!

So, this is the second step 2 to prestarting seeds in the house to go into the garden!

Couple weeks ago I did a blog up about starting seeds did you see it, I’ll a link below for you to see it!

STARTING SEEDS!

Did you start seeds this year?

Are you starting your own seeds?

I’m hoping to not have to buy too many plants is here from the local greenhouse! I always go and buy some stuff tho!

Make sure to support any local greenhouses! Their work is incredible!

Make sure you check out the other blog if you are going to start some seeds!

So, in this this blog I am trying to transplant my seeds, I may not have as many pictures as what I would like, this is because I’m trying to figure out what to do instead of buying dirt!

I am running around outside seeing what pots might have dirt in it, if there’s any spots that aren’t under two feet of snow still, that’d be cool!

I absolutely dread buying dirt, it is something that kills me every spring, every year I tell the kids to go and dig me some dirt so, we have dirt at this time of year it doesn’t happen!

So, I went to see what I can do for dirt before I go and buy some oh, but we’re going to go ahead and get what we can transplanted before then!

Any of the smaller pots that I have I’m going to use up with my cantaloupe and watermelon, right now to get ready two of them upstairs! Whatever plans I can put into new fairly good-sized plants might not have to transplant at least for a while that be great because the transplanting is what gets really hard on your plants!

I try to transplant as a little as I can and I try to transplant the whole thing if I can! This is why I like starting seeds in egg shell cartains because, the curtain is biodegradable and so to all go into the garden without doing anything to the plants roots, making it better for them to transplant better for when the plants go into the garden when transplanted!

When your seedlings are ready to be transplanted, go ahead and get your next pot or container that you were going to use, fill it not quite half with dirt oh, don’t forget your egg shells and hair!

Go ahead and lift your plant out!

I like to squeeze the bottom of the plastic seed starter! Holding up the stem as close to the bottom of the root as you can if you cannot flip it upside down cuz there’s lots in there still then go ahead and loosen the bottom and left it up very carefully!

You then just put it into your pot!

With your dirt about halfway filled you, can go ahead and fill it up!

Most plans like to be planted on an angle, this is making it so that more of their stem goes into the the dirt making the stem turn more into a root base!

There you have it now put these plans into the sunshine, water everyday give them some love and watch them girl!

I hope you enjoyed starting seeds with me this year I absolutely love it!

I really tried putting a little extra love into my plants this year trying to make my garden as good as I can for the food supply for next winter!

I hope you enjoyed this blog if so make sure you leave a comment and like it!

There will be more garden blogs coming up this year so make sure you follow along, add your email to get notifications of one I put up new blags, I aim to do a new blog every Monday just some for some extra motivation!

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Until next week have an amazing day, wonderful weekend and a productive week!

Bye for now!

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roots grow into egg shells, just be nice getting them out!

push root all the way down, going on an angle!

same idea for any container to be transplanting in!

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LETS ORGANIZE TIME!

8th Mar 20217th Mar 2021 classyclassicsbykandisLeave a comment

Hi, good morning, welcome back to Classy Classics By Kandis!

How was your week ? I hope you had a wonderful week did you start any seeds yet? That was last week’s blog oh, it was fun all of my seeds that I started came up oh, so that’s my good, I am actually getting ready to transplant those ones and start some more!

Did you read last week’s blog about starting seeds I’ll leave that link down below!

STARTING SEEDS!

With spring coming and in the air there’s also a whole another thing to start taking care of along with everything that is already needs to be taken care of in the house!

So I thought this week I would try to organize my time, spring is coming and the time spent in the house is going to start coming less and less available! I realize that spring time frames are not the same as that what they were, and they never will stay the same season-to-season especially with having a little kids like what I do!

But, spring is a month away the seeds are sprouted and I am getting all of my cleaning done so I can get outside and start playing in the garden!

So, when it comes to you trying I want to know do you think you have too much time or not enough time? I asked this question is everybody’s going to laugh and probably obviously say I don’t have enough time!

But is that really what it is?

So, if you’re saying I don’t have enough time I’m going to schedule out different blocks! And if I say that I have too much time then I’m going to schedule of different blocks!

No matter what you’re going to look at your day as a block system! One of the best ways that I found and there are so many ways to manage your time but, the best way that I have found is from Jordan page! I have done other blogs on time management and block systems I will leave them link below!

BLOCK SYSTEM

I find that it really helps just sitting down and looking at your day and seeing where your time is! So I am going to show you what I mean!

I use a planner and used to use all sorts of stuff and I might go back into using a block system again but for right now my planner is doing great! We’re having two little kids at home into big kids at school my day is going to look different than anybody, please remember everybody schedule is going to look different than everybody else’s! I did not say this enough when I talk about managing your time!

In my planner I will typically pick a couple tasks to do a day, if only happens that I get it was done through the entire week that’s what happens, but no matter what your day will be a full day! Doesn’t matter if you were in school, at work, or if you work at home, your day is still a full day!

I find it the easiest to break my day into boxes to find out where everything sits!

My block system when I created, I always have to kind of go back through and re vamp it as kids get older routines change, school comes into play all of this everything changes!

My system is from 6 a.m.-9 a.m. Then 9 a.m -12 p.m there is my first 2 morning boxes! Then I break the next hours up into blocks! 12 p.m- 3 p.m See the idea, with my schedule and the kids schedule it was easiest from me to do a box system breaking it every 3 hours! This may not be your system you could maybe do just morning afternoon and evening, maybe you go hour by hour! The biggest thing is to sit down and break your day up into blocks, this way you can see where you are at the busiest and where you are the freeist!

You can then with your block system then start filling in your times! This is routine and non wiggle room! Kids up, school, morning routine, kids home, bed time ECT.

There you have it!

This is one the best, fastest and most productive way to sketch out your time! This system allows you to keep anytime aside but, also to be able to put any time frames into there are not able,to be moved around or compromised!

I have a couple examples of my own block system, routine and planner below that inuse as a way to help trck my time! I hope they help, I hope you enjoyed the blog!

Finding time is hard, but keeping time is just as hard! Let me know in the comments below if you have questions on time management! Say hi, let me know what you thought of the blog! Don’t forget to hit that follow button for notifications on new blogs every week, I upload every Monday!

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Until next week have a great day, a wonderful weekend and a productive week!

Bye for now!

New version of my planner now a day! lol

I have a morning, afternoon and evening!

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STARTING SEEDS!

1st Mar 202128th Feb 2021 classyclassicsbykandis2 Comments

Good morning welcome back to another blog on Classy Classics By Kandis!

How was your week last week?

Did you have a good Valentine’s Day?

Did you get a chance to read thevalentine’s blog? I’ll link it here!

VALENTINE’S DAY FUN

You know it’s funny because I was cleaning up today they found a couple presents for my daughter under my desk so I guess she gets extra presents this weekend!

I think she will be excited about it haha mom moment!

Can you believe it’s the end of February?

I got all my valentine’s decorations down, and am cleaning corners and dusting cobwebs! Have you started spring cleaning?

I’ll also leave that link here!

CLEANING CORNERS!

I think it went by really really fast oh, the point where I now have my seed starts out and I’m going to start couple of my plants!

I have my pictures of my seed starting at the bottom of the blog for you to look at how I started them this year oh, well some of my seeds this year!

In Saskatchewan I have to probably start stuff different than what are other provinces might!

With garden season sitting close to 12 weeks away there are a couple plants I need to get started now!

The seeds then I’m going to start this week my watermelon, brussel sprouts, peppers, banana peppers, broccoli, cauliflower and my cantaloupe!

This is also when you start celery I don’t know if I’m going to pre-start salary this year I have to actually finish points are my seeds first!

I actually just found a new way to organize my seeds I seen it on a garden group on Facebook!

It was using an old photo album and you know I have one that is not in you so I think I’m going to try! I will of course but it in a post when I try! I do have a cute seed container I got from the dollar store, that works great right now!

I really look forward to our next season this year oh, it was a crazy year and I look forward to challenging myself to see what I can do for a garden again this year!

Last year my garden was crazy fast put in, it was challenging to keep up with it last year I did it and it turned out pretty good, but this year I am excited about getting at the garden and seeing just how great it can be this year!

One of the blogs from the other garden years!

Growing A Garden!

I have a year that I have gardened in the spot now, so there’s definitely some things that I know that I didn’t know and some things that I would like to try that I didn’t get a chance last year!

Ideally when I look at the calendar I would like to have my garden ready to go by May long usually it’s the end of may!

I only say the end of me because it’s been years since we’ve actually been able to get a garden in May long!

They used to put gardens in my May long all the time and the weather is be changing so much through the last 10 years that it’s easier try to get a garden in that early anymore, so I do try to give myself a little bit of wiggle room and so I don’t get as ancy when garden season comes so I tell myself by the end of may!

HOW TO START SEEDS INDOORS:

The first thing you have to do is figure out what you were going to start your seeds in!

I start my seeds in egg cartons! They are put in fruit containers that act like a little greenhouse and then they just get transplanted with the egg carton still right into a bigger pot and then from that pot it goes into the ground! This is so I’m only actually transplanting those small little roots once!

I do have a heated starter that I got for my birthday last year, and with this I don’t put eggshells in it because it just has the black plastic holders! These are just dirt, that will get transferred straight into pots!

Another thing that I like to do when starting seeds is when you are putting their seeds in I always try to mix some hair and egg shells!

This round didn’t get any eggshells because I didn’t actually have any eggshell set aside for some reason, but I have some going now so that I can have egg shells from when I do my other seeds and when I do my transplanting to my bigger pots!

The hair I know sounds weird but, the protein in the hair makes it great for seeds! I have some hair from my boys hair cut last year that I just bagged and put into my garden box! You do want to try to have un died hair so there is no toxins going into the soil and seeds!

WHAT TO DO WITH YOUR SEEDLINGS!

What do you do with your seedlings after you have all of these plants going?

After a couple weeks when your sprouts are beginning to get ready to start transplanting, I will start thinning them out only strong seedlings can stay, and then maybe get transplanted into next bigger size pots!

This is where you start getting a lot of stuff right now is when you don’t have these little squares you have tons of pot’s with plants!

I will use any window sill that I have, actually just moved a desk into my youngest kids room so that I can use the top of the desk in front of the window!

In my house if there’s a place that sunlight hits that’s where a plant goes! It’s hard because none of our plants in Saskatchewan can even start going out for another 2 1/2 months!

So if you live in Saskatchewan or someplace really cold make sure you are only starting plants that you have room for and make sure that you remember that you can spread out your starting of seeds!

So, something’s get started 12 weeks early something’s get started 8 weeks early most things only get started 6 to 4 weeks early!

My point so make sure you sketch out your plans and make sure you have the time frame but you have to space and don’t overdo it! Trust me it’s really easy to start them but, then all of a sudden you look around and you have a hundred plants into trying to find room for!

This actually happens a lot easier than what one would think it happens to me every year you think I would learn by now!

That is how I am starting my seeds this year!

Are you starting seeds this year?

Do you have a big garden?

When do you start your garden?

Gardens are so much fun they are definitely worth it in the end with they are definitely so much work!

Here is a link from last years garden blog!

The Garden and How Its Growing

Give yourself a little space, give yourself some time, give yourself a little pep talk and you will be loving garden food!

I hope you enjoyed this blog I’m starting seeds, I’ll love this time year! I’m sure you follow the other social media post there is more post and fun tips and tricks on starting seeds and lots more garden and summer fun coming! I will course leave those links down below to Facebook and Instagram, I hope you will come and join me over there to there for lots of fun!

So until next week have a great day, a wonderful weekend and work and a productive week!

Bye for now!