Well, I ventured out and got 3 different types of tomato plants (my seeds didn’t seem
to want to grow) and bought a basil plant. Will plant them later today.
I got yelled at today!
I was walking the dog and he marked someone’s front gate post.
The owner stepped out of the front door and yelled at me for allowing the dog ruin her landscaping.
I didn’t say anything & kept walking. Never know when someone is armed!
I do tell the dog Do Not Mark when there are flowers near the sidewalk or bushes like boxwoods which will get damaged.
Really, he is most interested in fence posts & trees. That seems to be where all the action is.
Weird day.
One of my tomato plants is growing like gangbusters. It’s already outgrowing its Wall o Water wall. Exciting.
I need to cut down a huge tree branch that shades too much of my vegetable patch. Neighbors won’t be happy as it gives them some privacy…
I love this time of year, when every morning I discover new things that have blossomed, budded, grown.
It really is the small things…
I ordered elevated raised beds, soil, and these cool deer fences that go right over raised beds instead of being tall fences around beds. I used to have a big garden down in the ground but my joints can’t do that type of gardening so I’m really looking forward to gardening again while standing up. 
I have seeds ready to go and might get a few plants.
I have 8 flats of flowers waiting to be planted, as well as my garden plants. I’ll still need a lot more flowers.
The high in the next ten days is 50 and they are now expecting low 30’s this weekend. Soooo depressing. Can’t take this weather along with everything else.
Chicagoland is so grey and chilly this week! Again!
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I’m thinking about treating myself to a couple new red bud trees. One for the front, one for the back. Any recommendations for ordering online?
Well, the bag of potting soil fell on a few of the tomato plants and the basil. plant, but hopefully, minus a few branches I stuck in the soil to see if they’ll grow, the main plants will be ok. Planted them all yesterday, nut now we are expecting another cold spell this weekend, with temps dropping to the 30s at night!! 
It was in the 80’s yesterday! )
Same here.
It’s in the 40’s right now and will only top out at 58. Once it gets there I’ll walk the dogs.
I’m also bummed that this is the week all my Korean Spice Viburnum are blooming and the aroma they give off it so lovely, but I can only enjoy it if I bundle up. (
Happy to report that the F1 Fairytale eggplant seeds I got from Hometown Seeds have 100% germination rate in my kitchen veggie nursery.
We have our first cherry tomato! Of course right now it’s smaller than a cherry pit, but it’s there. Before you folks in colder climates get jealous, remember that here in hot climates tomatoes quit setting new fruit about June.
The pole beans are sprouting. Transplanted tomatoes and eggplants going gangbusters–even the tiny tomato baby I thought might be too small to survive the transplant shock.
Harvested my first crop of leaf lettuce.
Got a new pipe cutter & made progress cutting new “stakes” to support the raised garden beds.
Plotting what to rig this year for some support for the raspberry bed.
Set up the tomato cages, but it’s still too cold for the plants to go in the ground. (Chicagoland).
I need to go to the Feed Store & pick up some pine shavings bedding which I use for mulch in the raised beds.
My tree rose arrived, has been soaking in water, and is ready for its planter. Will put it in this afternoon then haul it into the house since we’re supposed to get snow tomorrow morning!
Did you see the story about Queen guitarist Brian May? He was hospitalized after “shredding” (his term) his gluteus maximus as a result of “overenthusiastic gardening”?
He cannot stand or lay down without pain. Apparently he is quite active on social media and when he did not post for several days, fans suspected the worst (COVID).
To allay fears about COVID, he revealed the butt-story.
News report did not reveal what the overenthusiastic gardening entailed.
We have freeze warnings here.
Potted my rose yesterday afternoon, with able assistance from romping dogs and swarming gnats. Brought it into the house to protect it from today’s snowfall. I plan to take it outside for a little while every day so it gets sunshine and becomes a little hardened. Jackson & Perkins had it delivered based on my Zone 5 address, but I think it’ll take some doing to convince the poor bewildered thing that this is a good place to live.
All my plants were moved to the garage shed last night and will hang out there for a couple days until our low’s get out of the 30’s. I really, really would like to get my garden and flowers planted!
Also SUPER ticked. I have two very large pots on my front porch that I plopped a hanging mixed geranium basket in each one. They are beautiful and had multiple geranium blooms each. Someone at some point in the last day came up near the house and SNIPPED all the geranium blooms off one of the pots! It’s so weird! Nothing else is disturbed so I don’t think it was a hungry squirrel or anything. I mean, there are buds and it will revive but what an A_S someone was!!!
Are you sure it’s not a deer. They love geraniums - and maybe something scared it off before there was a chance for it to eat the flowers in the other pot.
I mean, we do have deer that roam the neighborhood at night. Hmmm. Sort of makes sense at the height they are at. I would rather know it was deer than a mean human!
@abaset It was probably a deer.
We were supposed to have snow flakes but just had a cold rain. My pots are too big to move in and out and several containers are part of the deck—we put plastic over everything, mostly herbs and flowers, but also Swiss chard and lettuces. Everything survived!!