I haven't done anything on this blog for awhile. Winter takes it(gardening)right out of me. I replace my spade with a snow shovel. This was an easy winter - unlike the previous two years- and I only had to shovel my deck once. My wonderful neighbor who plows my driveway only had to do it once. It was almost not like winter at all.
However, it's May and time to get back into the swing of things. I'm making some changes, reducing some beds, increasing and adding others, and preparing the garden for seeds. I can tell you, I have some serious sweat equity. Sunday I played rototiller - I don't have one so I had to be one. I know about dirty, tired, and sore, but the front vegetable garden is about ready. The back garden is calling for attention now. Some serious advice - don't let the grass and weeds get started - it is SO MUCH EASIER to prepare the soil if you don't have to dig out those evil crabgrass roots and dandelions. And as you're digging them out, you sow the new seeds for another great crop of dandelions.
Friday I turned into my driveway after a loooong week and was rewarded with the vision of an already mowed lawn. My other wonderful neighbor (I do have wonderful neighbors :])had his riding lawnmower out and kept right on going clear over to my yard. All I need to do is the grass paths around my garden. What a blessing!
