Comments on: What I am doing differently this year

By: Kathy Purdy

Kathy Purdy — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:43:11 +0000

I agree, you have a huge garden. And what are you going to do if the weather doesn’t cooperate with your schedule? I always want to scehdule appointments for rainy days, but it’s hard to know which days will be rainy 6 months in advance!

By: Kathy Purdy

Kathy Purdy — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:41:13 +0000

Good luck, to you, too, Avis!

By: Avis

Avis — Sat, 16 May 2009 11:41:37 +0000

This year I'm trying to grow more things from seed in my container garden and I'm also trying to grow more edibles that can help keep grocery bills down. I'm attempting to grow lettuce on the windowsill. Good luck! Avis’s last blog post..Lights, climbers, action: building a twinkling, virtual garden wall

By: Gail

Gail — Fri, 15 May 2009 20:59:09 +0000

Thank you for asking Kathy! I am trying very hard to edit! I mean edit plants that have been given too free a hand! Like a Japanese anemone that while lovely each fall is smothering the heuchera....next is the hypericum, which seeds like crazy! I can rip out weeds, but it's hard to compost the seedlings of plants! gail Gail’s last blog post.."And now, here's something we hope you'll really like!" Bloom Day

By: Country Gardener

Country Gardener — Fri, 15 May 2009 19:50:34 +0000

I'm basically where you're at too. Need to do a little undersplanting in my shrub border, but my major goal is to do gardening at the beginning of the week, and have Thursdays and Fridays off for other parts of life. This will require a good deal of discipline and organization because I have a huge garden. Country Gardener’s last blog post..May flowers for bloggers' bloom day

By: Chiot's Run

Chiot's Run — Fri, 15 May 2009 03:42:51 +0000

I'm adding a new bed for native & beneficial plants for the bees & butterflies. I'm also adding a few new raised beds for veggies as well as a small orchard in the back (7 trees planted so far this year). I also like you am hoping to keep you with what I already have while finding time to decrease the lawn for more flower & veggie beds. I have to remember that it's not a race and that my garden will never be finished, so it's not a big deal if I don't get it done this year. Chiot's Run’s last blog post..Ants and Peonies?

By: Tatyana

Tatyana — Fri, 15 May 2009 02:57:39 +0000

Hi Kathy! I do better job fighting weeds this year and I do something you try to avoid - I'm trying to add a lot of new plants! Tatyana’s last blog post..Back To Potatoes!

By: wiseacre

wiseacre — Thu, 14 May 2009 17:03:29 +0000

I'm actually hoping to get into my garden for more than a couple of hours this year. (removing the beaver dam the utility work crews left in my pond this winter doesn't count) - on the other side of the coin - I've been doing tons of stone work and very little gardening for others this year. wiseacre’s last blog post..Fuzzy questions and answers

By: Pam/Digging

Pam/Digging — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:55:04 +0000

Since I moved about seven months ago, I'm starting a whole new garden on a different kind of soil than I'm used to, on a hill instead of flat ground, with deer! Change is good. Pam/Digging’s last blog post..Stock tank pond in the works

By: commonweeder

commonweeder — Thu, 14 May 2009 16:32:12 +0000

I'd like to enter a spring where there were no major projects, but. . . Last year's new house foundation has given me two new banks to plant. Lawn is forbidden. One bank has been planted with 5 little American hazelnuts from the Conservations district. They have settled in and are leafing out. They will be underplanted with an artemesia (Silver King?) that I bought at a plant sale. It came with a warning - plant where it can run. This spring I dug up many runner roots which have been successfully transplanted. The other bank is turning into a Rose Bank. It has an old rose that was growing at the corner of the house when we moved here, 3 double red Knock Outs, a new Pink Grootendorst rugosa, and some Dash's Dart Rugosa runners I dug up on The Rose Walk. I am hoping those rugosas will spread and spread. Then there is the Potager and the new Entry Bed, but I've already said too much. commonweeder’s last blog post..Cover Your Ground