Gardening, anyone?

Twohobbies, daffodils in a couple of weeks, but nothing now. My sister gave me some anemone corms. I’ll bet they need to be planted now

I am growing my own cilantro here in S TX because at least I know it's organic! Also have a kitchen herb garden that includes basils, oreganos, chives, and Italian parsley. My lavender is in full bloom! Picked a cauliflower last week. Today transplanted tomato and pepper seedlings that came up from compost. Lettuce is just about ready to start harvesting. I love, love, love winter gardening here!

Ranunculus and sweet peas are coming up. Hubby has allowed me to take over some of the lawn for more veggies, cutting a little bit of turf each day. He has to come out and stop me each day because I over do it.

My monarch caterpillars are working hard to get to the next stage of life. Kinda like us

Hordes of these little squirrels dig up everything I plant or chew on it. This was a get well hanging pot of petunias. He wasn't content on pulling up the plants and dropping them on the patio. He chew up the plastic hangers until he and the pot hit the patio.

I thought they were cute before they chewed up my house twice and into the attic. It was really expensive to evict them, plus they caused a big roof leak. Plus they dig up all my plants and bulbs. Rats with fluffy tails. That is all they are..

Oh My!!! A photo of my nightmare

My squirrel proof bird feeder that had little metal grape leaves to cover the openings to feed through were bent down so they could get to the seed. I guess nutcracking jaws are pretty strong.

Jo what a beautiful photo of the caterpillar and flower. But squirrels and chipmunks are evil! I am used to not being able to plant my sunflowers anymore, but when they ate my cantaloupes this year, I was really ticked!

I put some garlic in my garden last fall, covered it with newspaper, as well as my mint patch. My garden is in a low area of the yard, and gets drownded easily. It is narrow so I can get into it easier, mobility problems. This spring, I am going to dig a ditch in the middle, fill it with newspaper, and garden along the edges. Going to do peppers, cherry tomatoes, and nasturtiums mixed with morning glories. Along with my mint patch, which is segregated by a piece of plastic house siding set into the dirt. Hopefully that will work. The lawnmower should release a nice scent.

Disturbed by the prospect of having to use gloves, I like to get my hands dirty.

I wear dish gloves because I can feel thru them better than with gardening gloves.

I used them last summer, once they had sprung a leak for dishwashing. I guess I will have to double my purchases. Forgot that they did work ok for me. Especially in that gunky mud. And, yes, my garden literally DID drown.

No flowers but winter skies for you

Hello - Just discovered this group today.

In the midwest, we had a warm spell then 2 snowstorms. I have tulips coming up from the warm spell. Hkping they survive the snowstorms...

Gumdoctor

Totally agree. Such beautiful color is so inspiring.

Gumdoctor