Gardening

It's time to start thinking about what to put into the garden for the summer. Every year we plant tomatos. The first year we put in over 20 plants and had a ton of tomatos. We've been progressively reducing the number of tomato plants though given that we receive way more than we know what to do with - even after giving some to the neighbors. I planted the seeds inside first and after just a few weeks they are already huge. The squash plants are doing the best from what I can tell.

I planted seeds for flowers as well. For some reason I'm really getting into flowers. I know I love peach roses. I used to have a peach minature rose as well. We planted it in the front and then trimmed it for the winter. The next year it grew to be a huge bush and is now red. I guess they had grafted the peach miniature part and when we trimmed it, it went into a regular bush. At least I get some pretty flowers out of it.

My all time favorite flower from the garden is the grape hyacinth though, with lilac being a close second. I just love the fragrance.

It's too bad that the garden vegetables aren't as fragrant. I might be more tempted to go into the garden itself and deal with it all. Instead I stand at the garden gate and pick the tomatos that are closest. My husband deals with the rest. Perhaps it is the mice that we know are in the garden. I don't want to accidentally step on one.

We'll be putting in the vegetables and the flowers next weekend, unless we see a weather report saying more snow. It's supposed to snow in a couple of days, so we didn't put them in this weekend.