Northeast Gardening: So what are you growing new in 2008?, 1 by bbrookrd

bbrookrd wrote:
DonnieBrook, I love the fact that you are transporting your babies north for the summer. Good Mom. I have been known to travel with seedlings to Vt rather than leaving them "Home Alone".

I did dig up a mess of sweet fern and Rosa rugosa today to move to a new bed. I have pretty good luck with getting them to root with a rather cavalier planting. It is very satisfying to root things. I figure today's work saved me several hundreds of dollars.

Funny, now that we are mostly retired, DH and I have the time to do more of the garden work and house maintenance ourselves, thus more cash for plants. We use to pay the mowing guys to do a lot of raking and edging. No more, as we have time to do that now. They now charge 40.00 an hour. That is a lot of plant money. We still have them mow.

We also gave up having cleaning help years ago, for which I put the savings towards plants and travel. My 93 year old mom gives me a Christmas check and a birthday one, which all goes toward landscaping. It makes her happy to see me so excited about a new tree or an order of shrubs.

But I am most lucky to have had a successful business to sell and now have the time and money to enjoy gardening with a generous budget. Though I doubt my personal satisfaction is any greater than someone growing for the first time a row of radishes. I remember that joy. Here is one little section of my edging and pruning work this week, not bad for an old gal. Patti