Fellow gardeners, the time for your first planting is now! Donate what you can’t eat to the local food bank, call and check when fresh donations can be accepted. Plant some flowers too, they make you smile and bring in your biggest helpers, bees!

It is now getting time to start our gardens here in Klamath. I will be planting some chilis, tomatoes, herbs and whatever else i can get my hands on. We have to use a green house but it still works.

Well my trees are in, but the nights are still to cold for planting. I’m busy cleaning up the garden area and hauling in the composted horse manure to the garden area.

Today will be my first day of working in the garden and my flower beds. I am so looking forward to getting my hands in the dirt planting onions, lettuce and my Black-Eyed Susans. Tomorrow, I’ll take an extra allergy pill when I go out to mow the grass for the first time this season which means spring has finally arrived in far western MD! My hummers haven’t returned yet, but it won’t be long now.

I tried to get going a little to early…I lost my tomatoes, but my herbs and peppers survived. I still need to work on the flower beds and add a few more veggies.

Above: That puppy is so cute!

So I have been growing my tomatoes and pumpkins inside for the last 2 weeks. They are finally big enough to go outside this weekend! It’s also time to rottitill the lawn and put some seed down.

This sounds like a great way to knock out 2 important “to-dos” excersise and get my garden going! wish me luck i’m planting a new lawn…

I have spent every afternoon since last Friday working in the gardens. I have raked all of them out, weeded, and ordered 10 yards of mulch, which I am almost done spreading. Today I planted new shrubs along the front of the house and tomorrow I plan to plant 5 new rose bushes along the back where the other 5 are. Things are sprouting up more and more with each passing day. I also started a bunch of seeds (that I collected last fall) and they too are popping up like crazy. Who doesn’t LOVE this time of year? It is fabulous.

Happy Gardening—and here’s to achy and sore muscles coming out of hibernation. YAY!

I just moved into a new house last fall and I wanted to put in some garden beds this spring. Digging out grass and weeds is so much harder than I could have imagined! I’ve finished digging out my vegetable beds and I’m working on a flower bed along the front of the house now…it’s really hard but at least I’m getting my exercise!

We just moved into our new house in December and I know what you mean! My husband and I decided on an area about 12ft by 12ft for the garden and at first I was like, Thats it?!? Then I started digging out the grass and weeds and thought OMG maybe a 6×6 might be better! But I kept on digging and I am almost done! I am hoping the rest of the gardening process is not as hard as this! I’m just going to keep on going and looking forward to the finished products! I am planting beans, peas, tomatoes, peppers, radishes, carrots and some strawberries.

I’ve never gardened before, and I was wondering if you guys had any tips that would help me out.

I actually did some gardening today, and then found this challenge. What a great way to motivate me to make sure I do something out there everyday the weather is nice.

I enjoy gardening tremendously it is my release from stress. However this spring my flower gardens are beginning to become overgrown with weeds. My challenge is to get out at least a half hour every afternoon it is not raining and work in my gardens. It will get me some exercise but also help me relax after work. Plus it will help me get the yard ready for a big get together we are having in the middle of June. Happy Gardening!!

Working on the yard today. Pulling weeds and tending to my flower beds and potted plants. Have already spent way too much time pulling out creeping charlie. Anyone have any tips on how to get rid of that before it kills all of my plants and flowers?

I have nightmares about creeping charlie. It’s invaded my grass, flower beds, and vegetable garden. I wish I knew how to get rid off it besides ripping up my whole yard and starting over.

Here in my part of Ohio, it’s been a bit too cold to get in the garden too much. A few herbs are in (parsley, pineapple sage, and LOTS of basil) but the cold nipped 2 basil plants. :( I don’t even have tomatoes in yet! COME ON WARMER, DRY WEATHER! I read some of your entires about flower gardens and they sound wonderful. I tried a flower garden once but it ended up a big mess. I’ve discovered that if I can’t eat it, I don’t plant it! HA!