College and Garden

5 April 2010
Still trying to figure out how to do all this by myself. Just completed my last assignment for college and tomorrow I take my last college exam. Then the end of April I take my Praxis II exam. That will complete my degree requirements. Scheduled to do my student teaching this fall at the local middle school. Finally made it, can’t believe it sometimes.
And with the warm weather I have been dying to get out in the yard and the garden and get things going. Took all the plants from the living room out on the deck, except the banana plant. Have to figure out how to protect them from the birds. Maybe take them out to the garden area.
I started some tomato seeds and some cabbage and broccoli seeds, and a few herbs. Cabbage and tomatoes are growing. Ordered some seeds and a peach tree from Gurneys, and bought an Apple tree at Walmart. Got some apple starts from Angela in Utah, and wanted to try to grow them. Guess the cutting won’t root and not sure I can graft them now that everything has started to grow. May still try one any way. IF not, I will spend the summer getting some crab apple rooting stock from around here and try to get new pieces this fall and graft them next spring. Grafting fruit trees is new to me, understand it, but have never actually done it. So there is a new learning experience for me.
Clay