"Gardening is a matter of your enthusiasm holding up until your back gets used to it." ~Author Unknown

Since it is finally beginning to feel more like Spring than Winter we've begun to work more outside, both in my flower beds as well as getting our veggie garden prepared.

Last night we sat down and decided on what we're going to grow and ordered our plants/seeds. Hopefully they'll be here soon. From my records of last year we were still having frosts until the middle of June last year, so we're converting my sewing room into a greenhouse and getting everything started inside, then when we get back from NC we'll transplant it all out.

Here's what we have going this year:
Butternut Squash
Tomatoes
Hops (for Matt's brewing)
Acorn Squash
Cucumbers
Sweet Potatoes
Spaghetti Squash
Romaine Lettuce
Cayenne Peppers
Yellow Squash
Spinach
Sugar Snap Peas
Asparagus
Garlic
Basil
Strawberries

Hopefully it's enough and not more than we can handle...don't know how much gardening I'm going to be up to. I think Matt's going to have to step up a bit more this year with the weeding and watering. I'm hoping we can get the rototiller down from my parents house and at least get the soil prepped before we head to NC.

My flowers are doing well: Peonies and hydrangeas have shoots and the tulips, daffies, hyacinths are all in bloom. Pretty soon I'll be able to pull out my window boxes and have to make a trip to fill them. The local greenhouse is closing, so I'm hoping that perhaps I can get some good deals on bigger plants (more hydrangeas and some fruit bushes).

The weather this weekend was beautiful! The coolest thing was seeing the trees go from tiny, tight little buds to a vast majority of them having 1" or 2" shoots already all in the course of a DAY! It'll be so nice when the trees are all in leaf again...the one thing that will be interesting to see is how much damage the tent caterpillars have done over the past 5 years...every year there are fewer and fewer trees with leaves. I'm hoping that the frigid cold this past winter killed the majority of those nasty things.