I am!!! I have babies screaming to get out of the containers. Last week was kinda a bust with the frost warnings so I have a lot of lost time to make up. I am heading over to a Master Gardeners sale (as if I need more plants with all I have winter sown) and then out into the garden...so many plants , so little time. I think I will take an Anaprox before I head out today.

Yes! I have lots to plant out and pot up for give-away. How did I end up with all these plants? And I just got a big order of coleus in from Rosy Dawn - yikes!

One of the convenient things about gardening on the terrace is that I can pot things up inside, if necessary. Don't have too far to go, you know? Right now, it's kind of foggy out there and my allergies are kicking up; it's so crowded out there with containers all over, so I've got some old sheets spread on the dining area floor and I'll do some potting up inside. I have about 3½ cu. ft. of soil - by the time I'm done today, I expect that will be gone. Then tomorrow, it's off for more soil; gotta plant out tomatoes and get some more things sowed - marigolds, more zinnias and melampodium.

It's going to be a busy weekend!

PV

Add me to the group; I've started already at lunchtime today. I took about 40 containers out to our Adopt-a-Spot and put most of them in before I got all hot and sweaty and decided to call it quits and come back to work.
When I get home, it'll be finding spaces for a hundred+ more, and I will hang myself if I don't get into the daylily bed that desperately needs to be weeded!

Thank goodness the irises are starting so I have something to go look at when I take breaks from the madness.

Well, this was the last week of the semester and I was bogged down in projects and papers, but now, it's over for me (feel sorry for the professors, though), and I'm ready for the big blow out.
But now today they are talking severe thunderstorms and its been raining heavy off and on with a lot of wind. So I'll probably stay indoors today and slip outside during the breaks in the weather to cut Lovage and Oregano and make it a Pesto Making Festival day :-)

(and if I get time, cut some spearmint to make jelly)

Linda

I'm trying to decide if soil's too wet to dig. Need to fix up ground in some places for better drainage. I've done this 4 times already and getting there slowly. I cheated and got some organic top soil for top 4-5 inches of beds after I work in extras.

Couple places where I'm not sure if I have reseeds or just more weeds. Garlic mustard is easy to spot but some are a little iffy until they get bigger. Spent another few hours right after first light pulling garlic mustard with flowers and spraying the hell out of the tens of thousands of little rosettes. I could be doing something "real" with seedlings but can't stand the sight of this weed all around me.

The seedlings are getting or already rootbound in their containers. I can see them through clear containers.

Rain, rain go away...don't come back another day until I've planted out the babies so I don't have to hand water all of them!

I have a ton of stuff to get out! and I hurt my rotator cuff (cup?) and have to do physical therapy to get my shoulder working properly again. Stinks. But I did get out my 4:00s and some primrose.

Actually, that brings up a question. What should I do with my primrose HOS? They get pretty big, right? Let them duke it out?

I put two tomatoes in 5 gallon buckets last night, and I have several more to do... can you plant more than one in a bucket? I know they get huge, but will they produce if that cramped?

I still have catnip, leeks, echinacea, and some other stuff to put out. Hopefully the rain will stay away! And I have to figure out what to do with these guys now because I can't do a lot of digging, or anything else for that matter :(

On the brighter side, what I HAVE put out is doing really well! I can't wait for some zuchini!

Leisa

Planted all weekend from early morning till nightfall. I was in the middle of cleaning up when we had a huge down pour! My yard looked like a lake, I hope the green babies did not drown. :(

I wish I could go nuts digging, planting, and transplanting. But I have tendonitis in both wrists and am wearing splints for 2 weeks. Resting the wrists is imperative, but it's so hard NOT to do stuff.

I can deal with about 10 or 15 seedlings each day, that's about it. So I am just whittling away at these containers. Then it's aggravating when I labor over planting a few seedlings and they get munched by slugs or cutworms 2 days later.

Isn't it amazing how you can plant out a bunch of seedlings and if one is missing you spot it as a glaring hole?

I'm not just filling in existing perennial beds but doing transition to mostly perennials this year so one seedling missing is obvious.

I don't do HOS for a lot of things since I sow thinly not to waste seeds and don't like to go around thinning things. My fine motor skills are sorely lacking.

Found out when sowing poppies "thinly" isn't possible for a klutz like me. I'm going around digging out tiny things from clumps and spreading them out.

Hope you get through your forced scale back, Terrene, and your wrists get the rest they need.

Also hope you don't have much heavy garden work to do that irritates tendons again.

I spent an entire sunny Saturday pulling Garlic Mustard, raking lawn after my father insisted on mowing lawn (which was too wet to go through to collection bags) making new compost piles with grass clippings and leaves then, finally, uncovering my father's fig tree which he can't do because he's got a shoulder still on physical therapy.

Didn't get to do anything for "my plants" but after today's wind/rain I should have a clear field for a couple days.

I've been planting out whenever I can for the last week. Finally putting a dent in the pot gettos! There are lots of things I need to sow thinner next year. I find myself walking around w/ a jug only to put it down somewhere then ending up w/ another one lol. Some how I ended up starting a new small shade bed and moving per. to it when I had started out planting jugs the other day! A.D.D. gardening!! lol

Annette

Hi all, I have been a planting nut for over a week now,,some times just walking around with my wheel barrel full of containers,,trying to remember what goes where,,I am so very sore already,,digging this an that,,I have a lot planted,,then the ones I ordered come in some at a time,,wow my yard is going to look great when it is finally done,,I am tanned already with out trying,,next is setting up the pool,,and more digging,,bought plum-grapes,,from gardeners choice can't wait to get grapes in a couple of years,,have to build a trellis sure to get heavy,, have to cover up alot gonna freeze yuk,,just reporting in from Ny Lisa

I'm waiting for tonight's frost to pass, then they'll all go out. I have too many plants to just plunk and run so I'm putting my plans on paper first. This is wonderful for me after not being able to garden for a couple of years.

Mary

Me either! This weekend I'll plant (maybe earlier in the week, depending on the weather). We are expecting a freeze tonight and tomorrow (we were planning to plant yesterday & today, too, darnit!).

So sick of this weather. We're moving South or West ASAP after these past two springs!

I hate to take my babies out of their containers, where they are doing so well, and stick them in the cold ugly ground.

I think it's funny that several of these comments combined planting and pills. I am right there with you. It hurts to bend and get them out and the stuff in the air clogs my head. Maybe we need a new forum? Pharmaceuticals for Plantsers?

I love wintersowing. The results comnpared to what I started indoors don't even compare. I tell everybody to save their milk jugs now. That's one thing- I don't think I will fool with the pop bottles or small containers, the bigger containers do so much better.