All the Hostas are coming up now. I'm glad they're all back. Still wonder why the largest plants are the slowest to emerge. This pic...

Pulled two heads of wintered Lettuce for a big salad today. Our favorite the light sweet ruffly tasty Simpson, and the Romaine (which came ...

We've been hit with a succession of thunderstorms lately, it's the season of heavy rain. So I took advantage of the mild weather tod...

Every year my husband starts anticipating basil-and-tomato dishes and buys me a potted Basil plant from the grocery store, long before my li...

My daughter's Apple tree in a pot is getting very leafy! The other one (on the left) coming along much slower for some reason. First a ...

Planted out my little Cosmos. Pink variety and orange.

I've made a new Thing for my plants. Been wanting a greenhouse of sorts for years, and ran into a problem yesterday. Young Tomatoes read...

Thinking over what needs to be done in the garden these next close weeks before my baby comes. I want to get everything in the ground so I c...

Just a few days ago I was lamenting that none of my seed in the garden has grown yet. And then today finally saw the tiny little plants sp...

So many Tomatoes this year! The younger plants getting big for their cardpots so I put them in regular pots. Well, recycled pots mostly, th...

are emerging; the only ones still can't account for are the largest, on each outside corner of the front beds. I'm wondering why the...

Front bed is now filling up with Tulip blooms. Most of them red, white or yellow. A few purples. And a pink one! I don't remember seei...

Had another near-disaster with seedlings. Clumsily knocked the tray of Echinacea off windowsill, but managed to rescue all the little plants...

Strange, I never remember dreaming about the garden before. Several nights ago I dreamed that someone in the neighborhood jumped a few backy...

I still have quite a few plants on windowsills inside. Most are second sets of herbs I started. I made another mistake, putting the Basils o...

sprouting. I worry that I don't see many Hosta coming back up; this is the largest one and there are three others with tiny new shoots....

getting too big for their cardpots. Quite a few fallen over too, the stems too long. But that's easily remedied by simply burying the s...

A walk through my yard. The front beds are full of bright Grape Hyacinths now. Daffodils are fading as the Tulips begin to bloom; the first...