Daylight Savings

Doesn't that just say spring? And how many of you are out there, probably more than I can imagine. Still cold here, and a prediction of snow--but hey, there are things to do. Clean up for one, stuff that's blown around in the community garden during the winter. Sometimes a neighbor's stakes or netting ends up in my garden. I'm hoping to do a better job this year with the weeding. And the dirt, well my friend Mike says he'll add chicken manure. I think that will be the ticket. Perhaps a little more roughage, leaves or something.

So imagine what you'd like to grow and plot it out on paper. Some folks like to keep a journal of the garden. This can be good later if you can't remember what you've planted. At the Kingston house we put in a lot of fruit trees, and later when we asked each other, now which one is this--we couldn't remember. So there was the journal I'd drawn out and everything in it was clearly marked. Remarkable feeling to be to be organized.

What do you want to grow this year. Try lots of easy things, and then maybe something exotic. Last year I grew a zebra stripped tomato. Interestingly, the strips went away as it grew. I was a little disappointed. The heirloom tomatoes don't grow well here in the PNW--just not a long enough season. They are so heavy with moisture and plump, they just get blight easily.

Well onward to dreaming with the seed catalogues.

Ciao! Flower