I planted some seeds on sunday and they starting to stick out of the dirt. So by next weekend for sure they can go in the ground. It will be my first garden on my own, with out mom and dad. I’m excited!

I have one lonely tomato, lots of basil and am starting to work with rosemary. I started all of the above in window boxes and just now put them into the ground. It seems that I pull weeds every day. I love to putter in the garden.

This evening instead of being inactive after work, I pulled a heaping wheelbarrow full of weeds from along my house’s flowerbed and redistributed them to my ducks, geese and goats. They were thrilled to get a fresh salad and I warded off the urge to munch!

A friend and I originally planned a community garden but when people realized that they had to work in it to earn their crops, they backed out. Instead, she and I have planted about a quarter acre of vegetables with hopes of selling some in a nearby city to recoup our costs and efforts. I am now getting a daily workout with hoeing, pushing a rotortiller, bending over to plant additional vegetables and pulling weeds. To be honest, I discovered muscles that I had forgotten I had and after getting all sweaty, it actually feels good to get this new exercise!! I hope this will contribute to my weight reduction.

I am going to try and walk my dog longer and earlier in the morning before the 10 am heat wave and the daily tropical rains.

HMMM. I have not planted potatoes for a few years. Last time I did they eneded up being blue. But then they were purple potatoes. They also tasted great.

JMBABS – I’ve been an avid herb gardener (tea, kitchen, and a few medicinal herbs.) If you have any questions, I’ll try to help! I’m sad that as soon as many of my herbs have really spread and look AWESOME this year, I have to start all over! Ah well, it’s a joy watching them grow from little ‘uns, too.

Well, I’m going to do all this wonderful gardening, and we bought a new house. We’re moving in 3 weeks. I put all my new perennial herbs in pots (which seems pointless) and I’m staring down the task of splitting very mature herbs in late June and hoping they survive the move. Got my free granola today. It’s tasty!

Weather is a problem. The storms have taken a pepper and watermelon plant. The rest of the garden is doing fine. Beans and corn have started to come up.

Today I finally got my herb garden in with 3 types of Thyme, 2 types of Rosemary, chocolate and orange mint, pineapple sage, lavender, Italian parsley and 2 types of basil. Still need some chives and normal sage, but the plants look beautiful and I cannot wait to start making my own lavender tea and using my own herbs rather than buying them. This is my first herb garden; it was an amazing experience buying the pots, the soil, the rock and the herbs and doing this myself!

I would plant some potatoes or radishes. Yummy.

Purple beans, Kidney beans, 7 types of tomatoes, 3 types of hot peppers, 4 types of green and yellow peppers, corn, cucumbers, carrots, parsley, dill, basil, watermelon, and raspberries. Boy am I tried! But I am going to be eating GOOOD!!! It seems that the food always tastes better when I can pick it fresh from my garden. I still have a little space left. Any ideas whe should go there?

Hi, I took advantage of the nice weather we had last month(april) here in michigan. All of my flower beds are overflowing with the color green, still have tones of weeding and planting to do. My son who is 6 years old and I started a veggie garden a few weeks ago and things are starting to grow up.

Well, yesterday I spent just about an hour outside with my students weeding and putting our worms in the butterfly garden. I love teaching them (2nd graders) to garden. They’re usually very excited by it.

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!

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.

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 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!!

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

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 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!

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!

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…

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!