I did too much yesterday. I got a lot done and boy is my knee feeling it today.

But I am happy to have been able to get out and do what I did. :)

My tomatoes are looking great. I potted them into gallon-sized containers in 'magic soil' from the compost bin. It won't be long! I can't wait.

Planted out Golden Euonymous shrub-lings and the hostas I got for $3 a pot last week from a freeze damage sale at WalMart.

I planted out my Royal Gold climbing Rose that I got for my birthday back in February. Rosa, Golden Showers is growing on the opposite side of the arbor. I hope this year they grow up onto the arbor and kiss at the top! I think that will be pretty over the entry of my Rose Potager.

My spring-flowering OG Roses are budded and starting to bloom. The smell is heavenly. The blooms are small, but without a doubt, they are the best smelling roses in the world!

The Irises are beginning to bud up and really look healthy this year. When they look like that, I always get big, beautiful fragrant blooms.
And surprise of all surprises! The old Apple tree is not dead after all. I dumped a 1/4 bag of composted manure in the basin around it last fall and today the whole top is in bloom!!! I am totally amazed and delighted. It used to produce the best apples in late summer. MAYBE...just maybe...I will get some apples this year. I am so glad I didn't let DHM cut it down a few weeks ago when he was chainsaw happy.

Loving this weather. Loving it!

I think I deserve a day of rest. ;)
(Those of you who know me, know I won't be able to just sit here all day...nope, no way...but I deserve to take the day off if I wanted)

Everything is looking good.
The grass is in dire need of a hair cut, though. My tractor has a flat tire and my truck is STILL down so can't go to town and get that fixed. The purple-flowered henbit is going to town! It's pretty and the bees & butterflies and Sphinx moths are loving it - I just don't like wading through my yard in calf-deep growth. Icky! Maybe I can borrow my son's push lawnmower and grass catcher. I THINK I can walk behind it. I think it is self-propelled. I don't want all those weeds to be thrown into my flower beds. I can start a new compost pile with all those great clippings, too. It is supposed to rain for the next couple of days, so I really need to get that done before the thunderstorms get here this evening.

Well, Good luck to you, Christine in all your garden endeavors! Too bad all of us bummed-up gardeners don't live closer together or in a gardening commune - we could all gimp around and help one another in our gardens and then pass the AsperCreme around to one another in the evening. Take care.

~Annie

Hope you have a wonderful time gardening! Please do post photos to show your garden.

The work has been underway here, too. I'm spending as much time as possible in the garden. Frost warning here tonight.

Cameron

This is a busy time of year for gardeners. I have been spending around 2 hours every nice day, weeding, trimming, and all the fun stuff necessary to keep up!

I hope you can find time to check in now and then and let us see that garden in bloom. You, too, Annie.

Glenda

Yesterday was an absolute gift here!! 20C/70F and sunny, for the most part. I got into my veggie patch, and planted 2 12' rows of beets, a coupla feet each of radish, mesclun and mixed lettuce. I cleaned up the iron trellis and planted sugar snap peas to climb up it. Finally almost finished the twig arbour that will be for my pickling cukes. Oh yeah, and planted my sweet peas - wish me luck with those. No wonder I'm a bit stiff today. lol. I was very careful, though, and managed to NOT hurt my knees. A miracle. Yea!! Today is very different - 10C/50F and a grey sky threatening rain - I'd better get the laundry off the line! We could use the rain. Cheers to all in their garden adventures!!

Nancy.