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Hi Maria! Good to hear from you.

Anyone know why it's only earth hour? Budget cutbacks?

LOL!

I don't know why. I suspect there may still have been an Earth Day. After all, Campbell's soup came out with green labels on their cans for Earth Day.

Yes - this was a special thing this year. Must have been quite a surge when all the lights came back on at once.

Hello everybody, I managed to get some peas in the ground this afternoon...

The big bed in the middle of the veggie garden is ready to go! Unfortunately, with the nights still in the teens, most of the veggies aren't!

some of my first babies just sprouting in my tin buckets

here's my manure, compost and mulch hauler...57 years old and still moving. Some of the time.

oh, and a couple of garden supervisors...

Great shots. Love that truck and the supervisors!

Looks like a wonderful veg garden. Great old truck and very cute observers. Sweet peas from the garden, yum.

We happen to have a 1958 Ford Pickup.... Don't have a picture handy but I love it. You have to love the steering wheel. And that three on the tree.

One of my garden supervisors....

I have like 70 % snow left. However, there are some tuplips and daffs coming up Yipppeeeee

Amos

Great photos everyone. I'm loving the garden supervisors!

I moved some daffodils from under my blueberries (I hope I didn't kill the blueberries in the process) to holes in the front where nothing I plant ever grows. I'm still working on my seed inventory. Hopefully I will start some seeds this week.

I need to start my lavatera.

Anna and I have planted our little hearts out this weekend. I'm too tired right now to write down all that we have planted. But, oh! The soil smelled so good! And it felt to good to get my hands dirty once again.

I know I will be checking the flats every day ~ that's just the kind of garden 'momma' I am!

Great!

Daisy, Were you describing the truck? ..or yourself?

"..57 years old and still moving. Some of the time"

Victor, you have a lavatory in your garden?


(photo from wiselivingjournal.com)

Daisy -that's a great-looking garden and I LOVE your truck! Very cool!

I also like your garden supervisors and Amos's!

Dave - add a few years to that quote and you'll have a pretty good description of me too!! LOL

Dave 47: no, that's the truck. I bought it because I didn't want to be the oldest thing around here. But I'm not far behind.

Donnie Brook. thanks for the nice compliment, and those little doggies thank you too!

I have to plant my petunia seed. I just love the anticipation of this time of the year.

It is an exciting time of year, Anita.

Pirl love your pic. When they say a pic is worth a thousand words, that one is what they are talking about. Next few weeks should be a lot like Christmas with wonderful packages to open, yours looks very pretty.

We normally grow about 1200 seeds but there are more plants than ever before growing downstairs now including clematises, a rose, some gingers and so many dahlias!

(I did tape up the wires that you see in the photo)

Pirl- are these all for your garden?? sarah

You're trying clematis from seed, Pirl?

If you are doing that, pirl, you'll have to let me know how it works out.

They are not Clematis seeds but very young Wal Mart (I can't believe I said that) plants. At $4.47 how could I resist?

Yes, Sarah, they're all for our gardens, vegetable garden, window boxes, planters, etc. By the time we're done I'm sure it will be closer to 1,500. Tomorrow is vine planting day - daturas galore.

Question:
Do you soak hollyhock seeds before planting?
I forget.

I never have. They seem to grow just fine.

Pirl, are those small white markers in your peat pots old thin venetian blinds all cut up? That would be a brilliant thing...

Yes, they are. Paint pens work best of all. They just look horrid in the garden and squirrels love to dig them up and rearrange them.

Here's what our garden looks like so far ....

Only if you click onto the larger view will you be able to see the crocus and the tulips.

I saw them. Their only purpose in life is pleasing you so they're as anxious as you are to get some nice warm sunshine and put on a show for you.

Thank you, pirl.
I really needed to hear that.

The past 2 days have done wonders in the garden, rain tomorrow, then a better weekend.

Oh yes!
Warmer temps are a-comin'!

Candyce- i just checked the 10 day forcast- and the end is near-- by the way...lots of my garden looks like that too! sarah

^_^ Thanks, Sarah. I'd love to see your gardens, say, in July?