Garden

[deeva]

Right now I'm growing tomatoes and kale. Just finished harvesting the last of my lettuce. I'm going to buy my cucumber plants this week. 

Once the heat sets in here in Arizona, I won't plant anymore vegetables until September. 

[tototwo]

@Still Raining -- "There will be dancing!"    Love it!  Wish we could all do the happy spring dance together.  Har.

We got freezing rain yesterday.  Bummer.  I won't be planting anything until Mother's Day (unofficial garden rule), but could be cleaning garden spaces until then.  I just noticed this morning that my old faithful burgundy mums are up about 3 inches in front of my porch.  

[Still Raining]

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@tototwo wrote:

@Still Raining -- "There will be dancing!"    Love it!  Wish we could all do the happy spring dance together.  Har.

We got freezing rain yesterday.  Bummer.  I won't be planting anything until Mother's Day (unofficial garden rule), but could be cleaning garden spaces until then.  I just noticed this morning that my old faithful burgundy mums are up about 3 inches in front of my porch.  

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We are already making plans for Mother's Day, BIG plans 🤣

[Sakuya]

@tototwo - Yes! I want to get digging in the dirt. I have a lot of cleanup to do. It is tedious but I don't mind. I take my time and enjoy the fresh air and smell of dirt. It feels good to walk in the grass barefoot.

[Skyegirl21]

I'm in south CT and we got hammered with snow this year! I still have huge snowbanks but my gardens are finally showing in some spots ! Holy moly, the yard is a wreck from the snow plows- Slabs of grass pulled off and landed in odd spots!  Lots of lost of grass chunks missing all over too- Cleanup and fixing the lawn is gonna take a while- ! I am ready to start getting the garden going-! This year, I want to focus on getting ground over in. It's a big area and oh the weeds. I got woolly thyme "Trample me thyme" from Roberta's at the Q few years ago and it has taken off! I'm gonna split it and spread it around- Ifcthey sell it again, I would buy more!  Love it, none of the critters eat it! 

[tototwo]

@Skyegirl21 - I know!  We have relatives in Connecticut and they are screaming "Enough!" with the snow and cold.    I feel lucky because here in Middle America, we only got one snow storm this winter.  It's early yet - we may get freezing rain and snow in April. 

After a week of rain and clouds, we're supposed to have "sunny and 75" (like the song says) tomorrow.  I'm psyched.  I'll start trimming and cleaning around the front porch and gradually move around the house.   I don't have the wooly thyme, but I do have a small area of Roberta's colorful thyme out back.  Some of it is up already so I have high hopes.  

Happy Gardening everyone!

[Mom2Dogs]

Even tho I do a decent fall clean up, I have already taken out 3 bags of leaves just from the back yard!   I pretty much finished the back yard of clean up.   Depending on the weather this coming week I need to work on the front yard.

I have the front landscaped (again)  a few years ago and don't love it..just don't tell my husband, lol.  I need help with making it not feel so 'cold'. I put in black stone instead of mulch and I think that is the issue, plus it is a pretty large footprint.

While I am able to do my own yard work, I was worried that I could not keep up the work in the front yard that is why I landscaped the way I did and upkeep is so much easier, which was the goal...and not buying and putting down MANY MANY bags of mulch was nothing I wanted to continue doing.  

I am going to take a few photos and go to a nursery soon  and ask for some advice.

[wagirl]

I am---but only have a couple big pots/containers on my balcony for a little gardening! And then there is no sun there until late in the afternoon so am not sure what I can plant yet. Just moved to this apt in Jan so not used to all that yet.

[tototwo]

Sad news.  We had a cold front blow through here early last week.  Two days were below 10 degrees overnight and mornings.  This after a week of 80's.   So, needless to say, everything that was above ground and thriving (daylilies, clematis, iris, daffodils, tall sedum, etc.,) all died and kind of melted onto the topsoil.  A week later, nothing is showing any signs of life.

Please, a moment of silence.