I don't think so, never too early.....I'm looking at seed catalogs and writing down lists for things to do, plant, etc. What are you planting and are you thinking of trying anything different this season?
We're going to expand the vegetable garden by about 5 feet each way, depth and width. I'm working on a list of veggies to plant and to try for this year. No cucumbers, no green beans (at least I don't think so because we still have a bunch in the freezer). We might put in some wax beans. Definitely more corn--to fight with the raccoons and deer, more butternut squash, tomatoes, and lots of different peppers again. We just love peppers. Some green peppers and mild banana peppers. Zucchini and yellow squash. More Brussels sprouts (they were really good; even Dear Richard thought so). I'd like to try red beets again (we didn't get any last year and I don't know why....lots of beet greens, but not beets. More potatoes this year, too. There are some other things on my list to try. It will be interesting to see how the asparagus comes up this year, although we won't get anything we can eat just yet. I'd like to work in some cabbage somewhere in the garden this year. And some lettuces. Maybe some spinach.
We need to landscape around the shed. That was where my moon garden was originally planted and I may try to do another one in front of the shed. I'd like to plant white wisteria with white hydrangeas and azaleas and such at both shed windows, but have to be careful of the double shed doors. It has planters at the windows, too, so something white for them. I'm thinking of either blackberry or raspberry bushes in back of the shed, although we might have some issues with bird poop around there if we do that and we don't need that hassle.
I'd like to till an area just for herbs, instead of keeping them in the backyard flower bed. I think it's past time to move things around a bit in that bed anyway.
Keep working in the front bed....we have a few spaces that could use some flowers.
We are looking at some deck plantings.....definitely a couple Ketchup N Fries plants with the tomatoes and potatoes as we find that interesting. But some flowers, too. I spend a lot of time on the deck and it needs something. We're just not sure what yet.
And we have a lot of soil to move around and level out right in back of the house from putting the shed down. The tiki bar needs a fresh coat of paint; I think the birds used the tiki's roof as a poop target!. And we're getting the fire pit for out back, too.
If I decide I want to can any pickles, we'll buy cucumbers for a local farmer. We haven't had a lot of luck with cukes now for about two summers and it's not worth it. There are other things I can plant.
We have a problem spot by the pool. There's an area that's fenced-in, but it's just a huge slab of cement from where the pool pump originally set before we moved it. I would love to get rid of the chunk of cement, but it's ungodly heavy and how in the world do you get rid of something like that?? It's not connected to any of the cement around the pool, just this big cement slab. The guys can't even lift, let alone move it. But if we could get it out of there, I could put in a very small patio-type tree in that area.
So that's my list for the season. I keep trying to figure out what to plant; Rick says he'll let it up to me, but I've seen him perusing the seed catalogs, too..
What are you looking forward to garden-wise this season? Have you thought about it yet?
We're going to expand the vegetable garden by about 5 feet each way, depth and width. I'm working on a list of veggies to plant and to try for this year. No cucumbers, no green beans (at least I don't think so because we still have a bunch in the freezer). We might put in some wax beans. Definitely more corn--to fight with the raccoons and deer, more butternut squash, tomatoes, and lots of different peppers again. We just love peppers. Some green peppers and mild banana peppers. Zucchini and yellow squash. More Brussels sprouts (they were really good; even Dear Richard thought so). I'd like to try red beets again (we didn't get any last year and I don't know why....lots of beet greens, but not beets. More potatoes this year, too. There are some other things on my list to try. It will be interesting to see how the asparagus comes up this year, although we won't get anything we can eat just yet. I'd like to work in some cabbage somewhere in the garden this year. And some lettuces. Maybe some spinach.
We need to landscape around the shed. That was where my moon garden was originally planted and I may try to do another one in front of the shed. I'd like to plant white wisteria with white hydrangeas and azaleas and such at both shed windows, but have to be careful of the double shed doors. It has planters at the windows, too, so something white for them. I'm thinking of either blackberry or raspberry bushes in back of the shed, although we might have some issues with bird poop around there if we do that and we don't need that hassle.
I'd like to till an area just for herbs, instead of keeping them in the backyard flower bed. I think it's past time to move things around a bit in that bed anyway.
Keep working in the front bed....we have a few spaces that could use some flowers.
We are looking at some deck plantings.....definitely a couple Ketchup N Fries plants with the tomatoes and potatoes as we find that interesting. But some flowers, too. I spend a lot of time on the deck and it needs something. We're just not sure what yet.
And we have a lot of soil to move around and level out right in back of the house from putting the shed down. The tiki bar needs a fresh coat of paint; I think the birds used the tiki's roof as a poop target!. And we're getting the fire pit for out back, too.
If I decide I want to can any pickles, we'll buy cucumbers for a local farmer. We haven't had a lot of luck with cukes now for about two summers and it's not worth it. There are other things I can plant.
We have a problem spot by the pool. There's an area that's fenced-in, but it's just a huge slab of cement from where the pool pump originally set before we moved it. I would love to get rid of the chunk of cement, but it's ungodly heavy and how in the world do you get rid of something like that?? It's not connected to any of the cement around the pool, just this big cement slab. The guys can't even lift, let alone move it. But if we could get it out of there, I could put in a very small patio-type tree in that area.
So that's my list for the season. I keep trying to figure out what to plant; Rick says he'll let it up to me, but I've seen him perusing the seed catalogs, too..
What are you looking forward to garden-wise this season? Have you thought about it yet?
