Dreams of Green Running Through My Head....Gardening 2009 begins!

Yeah it finally posted...whew.....LOL

My brown thumb is jealous...actually, both my brown thumbs are jealous.

I cannot believe it has only been a year since your last hothouse...hmmmmmmm that sounds "interesting." We're cold and windy...but blue sky!

I have to start my seeds soon, I need a hot house.

I HOPE...thiswill be the year for my permanent hot house...IF we ge the porch built. It will be made of recycled glass windows and will have "beds" for greens in it... and will be accessible from the inside of the house we are in. I plan on using this form of solar heating I read about...we'll see... and make use of the wood heat we now have...HOPEFULLY totally eliminating the need for electric...WOOHOOOOO....

I also have a cold frame now....BUT the ground temp is not cooperating....so I am supposing I need more insulation...bahhhh.... or a side dressing of green manure to heat things up....

Ihave baby tomato plants in the house with me right now...and soon pepper and eggplant that are germinating as we speak....

we have done a lot of soil work this winter....man I hope it works...and I hope to be raising some lavander guinea chicks soon to be my garden buddies/bug detail.....

we havent done any work on the house since right at christmas...so we are off to do a home depot run tomorrow.....and the end of this month we are gonna go paruse the habitat for humanity warehouse and see if we can find..well anything that we might use.... towards our goals....
got the yard picked up..WHEW...that was the greatest blessing this winter....I was really tired of looking at construction "she_ite"

You are incredible!

I hope I have the money to start a garden this year.

got plenty of seeds Shannon..glad to share them with ya

PM me. I would love to take you up on that!

I'm ready! My garlic is doing well. And my parsley came back in my container garden. I'd love to have a green house...some day maybe.

Oh, how I envy you with your hothouse! Everything's coming along nicely, and I imagine it's lovely to be digging in the dirt and inhaling the scent of greenery in January!

Garlic is grand...I have it in three areas now in the yard...LOL....yup I am hooked....and don't get me started on parsley....I got some to go last year....and have that large flat italian in the herb area...and a variety potted in the hot house....
I do not htink I could live without mine...we breifly spoke of taking down this make shift one...but I knew if we didnt hae the other up...I would be crazy....

I'm looking forward to watching your garden grow from the ground to the table. Good work, Lou Anne and happy eating to you!

Your hot house sounds fantastic. I'd love to have one. I can't wait until Spring and I can get out to the garden again. I've had enough snow...time for warm weather. ;)

Help me decide, those of you who ACTUALLY read my posts....
sicne my skills as a writter are limited and I OFTEN don't feel the desire to get wordy,I was thinking of just editing an older post with my thought(s) of the day instead of starting new posts all the time.
I notice that some people post alot and others have few posts but with very large view count and comments.
Recently I have also noticed many are creating a post with links to all of the posts that share a common theme.

I think my particular intrest in opinion on this stems from the fact that I do not always get to taking and loading pictures to enhance my post but find I am more often than not drawn to posts that include photos myself.
In otherwords clean up my act and become a more efficient poster without over reposting and driving any moderated group owners into fury.

I also would like some feedback from those of you who own groups on what is acceptable with this in mind?