Preparing the garden for srping planting!!

we still have a few inches of snow on the ground here too. Other than plotting out what our intentions are this spring and what we can start ahead of time by seed next month we won't be able to touch our lil garden area til atleast the end of april early may.

[i]Hi Bebs, I am ready also! hehehe! I had all the seeds from what we harvest last time, I dried and kept it. But, I am planning to buy more since that time we had only melon, okra my favorite, tomatoes, broccoli, and pepper...I want to try eggplants! It's exciting really to eat fresh vegetables again direct from our backyard! Enjoy! [/i]

Hello dear Bebs. It is right now spring and it is time for the preparation of gardening. Here in the south of China, we citizens are usually called on to plant trees in March, when the weather gets warmer. I love to see greens everywhere for their being pleasant to the eyes. Happy planting, Bebs.

As mscott we still have a lot od snow left - so there is no chance that I can work in my garden - if you don't concider shoveling snow :D I'm planning for this years vegetables and doings in my garden. Hopefully I'll be abeled to dig my deep bed this year so I can grow a lot of vegetables. Mainly I do stuff inside the house to prepare for storage of vegetables and potatoes this year - we haven't had any food cellar in this house before - or there is one but we've used it for starage of things instead.

Considering we still have like three to four feet of snow on the ground I think it will be sometime before I can get out and start getting the garden ready. I like to plant a small garden and the kids like it too but we have a ways to go before we can do much gardening unless they come up with plants that grow in the snow.

We still have snow on the ground here in Wisconsin. I will be starting my seeds inside soon. So they have a head start when I put them in the garden. I saved seeds from my vegetables last year. So I don't have to buy green beans, squash, peas, tomatoes, lettuce and a few other things. I love eating fresh from the garden. I also freezing my vegetables for the fall and winter months. We first can start planting outside in late May or early June, and the garden lasts until the first hard frost. If I am able to get things covered up before a frost, then the garden lasts longer. This past year, it lasted into November. I just made sure I covered my plants up before dark so they would not get hit with the frost and then once it started to get above freezing in the morning I would remove the coverings. It makes the garden last much longer. I love watching my plants grow from seedlings into productive plants. It would be great to have a garden all year long, but don't see that happening here, don't think we will end up with that kind of weather change in the future. Good luck with your garden.

Still snow on the ground here. The planting season starts May 24th where I live. Which BTW is Ontario Canada. May 24th is a long weekend as well. I'll be starting my indoor seeds in April to have them ready to plant outdoors that weekend.

We used to have a garden every year, we'd have so many vegetables we had to give most of them away because we couldn't eat them all by ourselves, then we quit gardening, and everybody would always ask us if we were gonna have a garden I guess they got used to us giving them stuff...lol. I like gardening but its hard work, you have to try to keep all the weeds pulled out, and go out and water it all the time, not to mention critters getting into it. My husband bought a fishing boat a few years ago and he decided he liked fishing much better than gardening so thats when we quit..lol. I think here everybody will start getting their gardens ready about March, when we're sure we've had our last frost.

That sounds like fun. I wish I had a garden to take care of.

Oh its only now that I realized that those countries with snow can't really maintain a garden the whole year. Of course the snow will destroy all the plants and you just have to plant again during springtime. But I think your fruits and flowers are bigger than ours here. I saw the garden of my niece in UK and I am amazed how her roses could be that big. I hope you can also take a picture of your garden here when they are already ready for harvest.

Good luck with your gardening. Remember to grow potatoes in containers

I can't wait for the summer! I think I will start raking the yard soon, waiting for some not windy and sunny days. I am excited for planting too! I like to see all the greens and blooming flowers :-D

That is not a good part when you're in the place that have snow. Unlike here in the Philippines, we can do the gardening whole year round. I don't plant flowers. I used to have edible landscape. Planting tomatoes, onion, calamansi, ginger, mango that is all I want. I want my plants to be eaten and to save money from buying it in the market.. I wish I could plant apples, grapes, and oranges here like there.

i am planning to plant some flowers on pot this spring, as i cant plant flowers in my yard this yr as i would be out of town again. so i think its much easier and better to just plant it in pot. but i would like to plant more around the yard like i did last year but i dont i cant have time to water them as i am gonna be usually away from home. i like planting a lot its one of my hobbies. good day. and happy mylotting!!!