What are you doing for your garden? Is it spring yet?

Still too cold to think about planting anything, and there's far too much snow on the ground. I've got a great back garden that I plan on expanding this year, I want to extend it further than the length it is in the photo attached. Since we have a large yard, this is possible, but I have to make sure I keep the dog out of it, or he'll do things he's not supposed to do in there. When we moved here, the garden had already been planted, so we got to enjoy some mint, basil and baby tomatoes. The one corn stalk that was planted didn't make it. There was also eggplant and zucchini in the garden. This year, I have great plans for the garden, but I have to detail my plans before attacking the garden. Since it's along a fence, I can do a lot of cucumber and beans, and they'll have lots of room to grow up the fence. I also plan on corn, not sure when to plant it, if I can do so early in the season or not. I have lots of seeds, but right now, I have to figure out where they are, so I can plant them when the ground thaws out. I may even start them inside next month, but the last time I did that, it didn't work out so well as I planted too early. Last year, I had a container garden that did ok, but wasn't perfect considering that it was on a hot roof, so I'm happy that this year I actually have garden space to use.

Hey, now the groundhog did his duty and announced we would have an early Spring. I remember growing a sweetpotatoe and it made a lovely plant. We can't plant anything here but I usually have tomatoes out in big 10 gallon jugs. Several cause I like the pear and the little cherry ones. Yum! I am really looking forward to Spring too! Happy Planting GG

Well Gerty, I can only assume that friend is me unless you have another friend who asked about the sweet potatoes..If it is me, here is my answer..No, I am not going to grow them, because as I researched I saw that our growing season, even if I were to start it early, is too short. So I will eat the potatoes we have and if I ever want to grow them, I'll have to invest in a huge greenhouse that I can keep at a very warm temperature, even when in single digit temperatures.. I am looking forward to spring though and I'll have to at least start my pepper plants, just got to get some good soil..:)

I've been away from home for a few weeks, so I am looking forward to getting home and getting stuck into the Spring activities. When I left my garlic, broad beans and peas were doing really well, but it was still too cold for anything else. I planted some chickpeas just before I left, but as a green manure rather than a veggie crop. I also had a patch ready to take some new strawberries as soon as we could get to the market and buy the plants. I'm hoping those will be in by the time I get home.

yummy. i want to be around when your garden comes up. i'll bet you raise some tasty stuff like my mother in law did. i was never good at raising any thing but my kids not a green thumb. yes, even here in az, we are a bit tired of the freezing and its not as bad as back east.

The last time Mum visited Carlisle in October, I think it was, she planted a few daffodil bulbs for me. They're starting to sprout upwards as it's a bit milder now. My Winter Jasmine has cheered me up because it's the only plant I have outside that has flowers on it at this time of year, bright yellow in this case. Oh, I can't wait for Spring, I love that time of year. I bet you do too!

Two years ago, when we moved here, I was all set to plant a garden and got distracted. I didn't plant anything this year either. Another house might be in the works, so that will mean anything I plant here will go to waste. I just can't get my garden timing right. Home grown sweet potatoes would really be nice about now, especially in some kind of soup or stew. A big change from regular potatoes.

hi garden gerty oh I do miss having a place to garden. stuck here in thie stupid retirement center there are so many thing I miss that you can have even in a rented apartment than you cant do here. lol. I always had really good luck with starting sweet potatos and watching them root. I even started an avocado that way that was when i was staying withe my mom in their T empe arizona home and I planted it outside as it was two fee tall. and I will be damned some stinker dug it up and stole it.We have some mild days here but it is Southern California so we should have some nice weather now.Here you can grow a lot of things year around as we do not have snow although we have had freezing weather a few times. I love spring always have as I grew up in a cold state where spring and winter are truly appreciated.South Dakota.

Hi, GardenGerty....Are you going to plant that one sweet potato? I've been thinking about rooting and planting regular potatoes. I love new potatoes with fresh green beans seansoned with bacon fat. mmmm....The way it's going right now, I don't think spring will ever come again. I'm also planning on starting a small herb garden area in some window boxes. Good luck with your gardening.

Some years ago there was a flower bed at work that the plants in it looked healthy but did not flower. I wanted to remove them but the gardener we had then told me to wait as they would bloom. Well, he eventually left work and we got a new gardener. I told him to take out the plants as they were dying anyway and yes, of course you have guessed what we found. A huge pile of sweet potatoes were reaped. So I gave them to the gardeners and housekeepers and they cooked a huge meal and shared them with each other.We had not grown sweet potatoes on the farm so I did not know what they were but of course the gardener did know. Irish potatoes are regular potatoes but just called Irish out here as the Irish immigrants brought the seedlings with them. If you can pass on the info I would be grateful. Plan to grow Irish potatoes and Sweet potatoes this year.

Still have long ways to go here... I wish spring arrives soon... I have not done any gardening yet, I cannot start anything because it is still too cold at night even if I start it indoor, I guess I would have to wait for another 2 months at least///

I live in Florida and we even here have a hard time in the winter growing a garden. During the wintert alot of our trees die or get runt by the freezes we do have. I did see that homedepot the other day did have the vegetables bush's out and im excited to go back and get some and then some seeds as well to see what will grow this year. My boyfriends mom has a topsy turby and she has been doing good with that and has had some tomatoes and some jalpenos off of it.

Wow it is hard to picture spring soon as we got another 2 feet of snow yesterday, so no gardening for us anytime soon, so it is off to the market for any sort of sweet potatoes for a whole yet. So glad to hear of you preparing though.

Sadly, where I am, there is very little earth that isn't under constant shade from all the old trees. And since I rent, no chance of that changing. I did have several tomato plants last year and loved it, but room for nothing else. Even if I did have room for a garden, you wouldn't catch me out there in the snow thinking about it right now. My old bones need summer sunshine!

Alto we have had no snow am looking forward to spring evn went to lowes yesterday to find out when tomatoe plants would be in. and they are sure but possible by the end of the month or in MArch I have planted them in Feb and they survived.

Our ground is still frozen and have found in the past that planting most of our seeds directly into the ground was as effective as starting seedlings so I will wait. However, this year, due to need and finances, I will plant more than usual. Nothing beats fresh produce from your garden!

I went out on my enclosed back porch and dragged out the planting pots, the kind that you plant in then just put in the ground. Around the end of March I'll start some vegetables in them. I'd like to make my garden bigger but that means killing a lot of grass and a lot of digging. I'm planning how to do that now, maybe I'll just have the guy who does my yard do it. Killing grass worries me because the dogs might get the chemicals on their paws and get poisoned.

We are still pruning back last year's growth. It's been so cold here that I couldn't get to it. I think we could put peas in here.

Next the summer is gonna play with us and with our cute cute and small small plants. I am ready to face this, i arrange a special motor for water supply. And after completion of my college hours, i will be spend with my best friends(plants and flowers) only. Do you believe that flower and plants are our best friends?

So far, I have not done anything or even started thinking about it. But I will, I swear...!! (That said, I spend way less time on my garden than I should every year)