[Gabz]

Gardening Ping!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks much to Garden Girl for another great, and inspirational article!!!!!!!!!!!

[tennteacher]

My daughter and I took the Master Gardener course together and dig in the dirt frequently. We spent the last two days (almost) finishing spring cleanup in her garden.

The color is spectacular, but only creeping phlox and Halesia are in flower. The gold, green, purple, orange, white, red, and variegated foliage is breathtakingly beautiful. The sun on so many colors of heuchera is truly a sight to behold.

Hers is the most colorful foliage garden that I’ve ever seen.

Thanks for the gardening article. It’s one of my passions.

[gardengirl]

Thanks Gabz! Glad you enjoy them.

[Just mythoughts]

My snow peas are popping through the soil, probably the latest in the year I have ever planted, so we shall see if spring temps hold for them to yield.

The garden is still so wet in most areas I can not get to it, but I have several raised beds with lots of mulch paths that I can get to the ones I plant early things in.

I used the oak whiskey barrel concept for my potatoes, in that I used an old above ground pool shell to build up with compost the soil so the mixture is light enough for potatoes to grow without getting washed out or soil too packed (black dirt) for the potatoes to grow. It has taken me a few years to build up enough soil to do the barrel concept. I sure do get the puzzled looks when visitors inquire about the pool in my garden space.

Now if I can keep out the neighborhood rabbits from snipping off the tops of my peas I will have lots of steamed snow peas in a few weeks. Last year from spring to fall around 7:00 p.m. there was a parade of rabbits from the neighborhood that would invade the back yard. Old men rabbits stretching themselves out and all sizes down to the very small ones came in from all directions as though I had NO clue where they were headed.... my garden of course.