"Gardening is the art that uses flowers and plants as paint, and the soil and sky as canvas." ~ Elizabeth Murray

Oh my goodness, it has been a busy couple of weeks! So many things have happened...For starters, spring is springing and how!

R and I measured out Zone 2 yesterday and today I painted a sign for the newbies. Of course I couldn't just spray paint a sign, I had to do it up. It was a good excuse to be outside, an avocation I've become quite passionate about these past couple of weeks.

and lest we forget the babies have been a growin' and a growin'....

and the Moon Flowers are a foot tall so we've been training them back on themselves (for now)...

Today, I soaked our Amish Sugar Snaps and Green Arrow Peas. After they germinate, they're going right in the dirt! (better late than never).

I have an appointment with my no-till/perennial garden site coordinator tomorrow morning. It seems the last people to garden my plot didn't clean up and I'm going to have to find someone to till it after I haul all the old stuff out of it (brussels sprouts, sunflowers, a pile of whatsit). Not really what I had expected, but I'll be happy when I have leeks till after the first frost, and kale and herbs that I won't have to take out whether they're ready to give up or not.

Last season, I took one of our Italian Flat Leaf Parsley plants and literally shoved it in a big pot with some soil. I set it on our glassed in but unheated porch and barely watered it, yet it  remained mostly green and edible until almost December, still had some green on it as late as March although it finally looked too weary to be appetizing. I'll definitely try that again next season despite that I'll be leaving the herb garden intact until nature kills her herself.

Which is as it should be.
XXKHT

Comments

[Kimberley @ Put Yourself to Bedlam]

Thanks gals!
And no Graziana, it is not all mine - our community gardens are divided into zones (or areas) that are divided into smaller plots. I have one in Zone 2 which is an annual/till site, and another in Zone 1 which is a perennial/no till.

It's still a lot of ground for working, and I'm psyched!

XXKHT

[Graziana]

What a beautiful sign!
And -wow!- the 'Zone 2' looks biiiiiiiiig! It is all yours?

[Nancy Bond]

Love the quote...love the sign...love that red pot! Everything looks like it's thriving in Burlington. :) (I spent a night in Burlington, VT on my honeymoon in '77 -- I remember a restaurant called The Potting Shed? Fantastic!)