gardening time

Thanks Price.....will wait for the planting....I love flowers and will soon enough have hanging baskets all over the place....I bought a little planter of daffodils for inside and my daffys outside are still blooming....for a whole month now with a few more coming up!

Enjoying these fine days...

I am also a gardener (well, I want to be) and plan to put in a big one this year. DH and I can't eat a lot, but we have friends and neighbors to share with. I also know how to can and plan on putting up some homemade SF BBQ sauce this year. That is if the tomatoes do well.

Since I live in an area known as the high desert (think freezing winters & blazing summers) gardening is a huge challenge. Therefore, I use raised beds. I have some tomato water tents that a friend gave me, so I can plant soon, even though I know we will get another cold snap before we hit spring.

I have raised beds, 22" tall.  I love them and they certainly make life easier. 

I've only gardened in the South.  My DD was in Oregon and is now in Cleveland and it is amazing the differences even there and they aren't drastic like the high desert is.  I was enthralled when we were in the high desert around Vegas.  Wow, what a landscape.

I'm trying to make a "high desert "  frost  proof agave, yucca succulent and cactus garden around our pool deck... one garden at least that  will NOT need watering lol  :)    I. like you Price find the lime greens , the delicate blues and purples and grays and the amazing shapes absolutely  astonishing and SOO desireable ! 

I turned my Brooklyn kitchen  - garbage enhanced  soil over  last week and was astonished to find dark, wormy  amazing smelling humus .  No fertilizer needed  again this year  I suspect !

Right now  I'm harvesting Jerusalem artichokes and  egyptian ( perpetual) onions  which taste like scallions this time of year  , planting  peas  ,sprouted  garlic  cloves and sprouted potatoes ... and enjoying my  early flowering daffodils , gorgeous hellebores and perpetual broccoli sprouts which are somehow amazingly still chugging along ... 

STILL eating the red white n all- blue  potatoes I harvested  from the bottom of the raised bed   lol a few months ago and have kept cool .... as well as the sweet buttery yukon gold and banana  fingerlings which make amazing  stir - and oven-fry ingredients .  I LOVE  potatoes !!! 

Theres a restaurant that specializes in  amazingly done vegetables in the East Village I'm dying to try .  3 month waiting list 4 reservations .    HELLO  veggies are  POPULAR 

I'm not sure who I'm quoting .. but flowers are food for the SOUL 

I put in a LOT of  "backbreaking " ( read : fun )  exercise  creating ( from nothing )  this huge formal flower (and fruit ) garden last year .  Here are a few of the pics - I had NO help lol... but then again .. ive gained NO WEIGHT   , eat what and how much i LIKE and handsome young doctors etc who could be ( possibly with a serious stretch ) my sons flirt n  ask me out lol    Life IS good !   

Your roses are beautiful.  I do less flowers each year, and these days basically no annuals.  I love my flowers but just don't have the time anymore.