Garden planning

[Tink]

After this short spell of warm weather I'm just chomping at the bit to start my seeds for summer. I couldn't resist picking up more seeds each time I've gone shopping lately, so m amassing quite a few! I also bought a couple dozen peat pots, and trays with planting pellets for 120 plants so far. I have about 100 containers left from last year too, that I need to get potting soil for soon.

So far I've gotten seed for:
aster
babys breath
black eyed susans
cardinal climber vine
calendula
columbine
cornflower
cosmos (pink, orange, yellow, red)
forget-me-not
garland daisies
hollyhock
lavendar
petunia (mixed colors)
scarlet runner beans
shasta daisies
sunflower
wildflower mix, perrenial mix
cantalope, chives, sweet corn, wide variety of peppers

I still need to get plum trees, more raspberries, fern, hostas, and "something" that likes shade but has pretty flowers to edge the house with.

This is on top of the perrenials I put in last summer; plus my strawberries, raspberries, apple trees and flowering shrubs.
I plan to get my soil soon so I can start my seeds and get them outside asap. I seem to have the best luck with them when I let them sprout in the cold. They just grow hardier that way!

So who else is a gardening fanatic? Does anyone else do cold sowing?

[Chandra Amaya]

does it count to be a "wanna be garden fanatic". I'm still doing the trial & error learning how to do this but I love gardening so much I want to plant. Do you take care of all of these plants yourself?

[rivermom]

Awww Tink ~ How fun !! Your garden is going to be absoutley breath taking and you must take pics when it's mature!!


I love gardens of all kinds -

[Tink]

It certainly does count to be a gardening wanna be! I think that's the best most of us will ever be! I include myself in that category too because there is so much I don't know and every year I learn something different that works better than the year before.

My hubby loves gardening too, but he's home so seldom, that the lions share of it does fall to me. He's wonderful about helping with the heavy work and would love to have a much bigger veggie garden than I do. I prefer to focus on my flowers. so the veggies are kept to a minimum because I simply don't have the time or energy to take care of it all, so know better than to even try.

As for the flower beds, I plant things thickly because I prefer the way it looks and it cuts back on the weeks considerably. This way I get more bang for my buck and don't have to work as hard.

[DianaB]

It sounds like your yard is going to be beautiful!!!! I've given up on mine. I'm not even sure that I'm going to buy flowers this year except for a hanging basket or two.

[AngieDoogles]

Tink, it looks like you are going to have an amazing garden!!

[Janet]

You'd think I would have learned a lot more than I have being married to the son of a florist. The Knox Greenhouse buisness was started in 1894 and continued until just this past summer after the death of my father and mother-in-law. My brother-n-law is a Florist in Illinois.

I love planting flowers although not real good at it. I've always had a veggie garden until a few years ago. I'm considering planting another, but don't know if I want the extra work. I would really like to have more time to sew.

[Mandy]

Tink your garden sounds absolutly lovely, cant wait to see pics when all is grown, and blooming!

[Tink]

I ordered more hollyhocks, some lady fern and a bunch of mixed oriental poppies today. Woooooooohooooooooo gotta love perennials! Every year they just get better!
I need to go get my potting soil so I can get my seeds planted asap.

I have pics of some of last years garden online in case anyone would like to see them. I hope you enjoy!

http://parenthood.dropshots.com/day....cdate=20360506