The thread that gives some of us LIFE!!! 
Look forward to the trials and tribulations, pictures and recipes, tips and suggestions, learning and sharing!
Who has stuff in the ground already? Who has started indoor seeds (a bit early for her yet)?
Share any all gardening stuff - vegetable gardens, annuals/perennials, yard landscaping, indoor plants!
I just pulled out the tomatoes from my small raised bed and planted lettuce and chives.
Followed the advice in the 2023 thread and ordered seeds from Renaissance Farms. I got BrandyFred Dwarf and they also sent a gift of five Beauty King seeds. I just started them indoors two days ago. This will be more that my little garden can handle so I’ll give away plants to friends.
I live in coastal Southern California and can keep my herb garden going all year. Something has been getting in the yard and digging. Ate all my dill 
but left everything else alone. We met with our landscape designer earlier this week. (We do this annually to keep on top of things. Let it go too long before and ended up with a jungle.) She thought it was likely a raccoon, mostly looking for grubs.
So in Southern Cal do you have two growing seasons?? Like when do you plant tomatoes in your outside bed???
I have a friend who has indeterminate tomatoes and keeps them going all year. The ones I just pulled out were also indeterminate, but had gotten out of hand – too big for the bed. I needed to add soil and mulch to the bed. And I wanted to try something new.
New seedlings will probably will go outside in about a month or so. Some in containers, some in the raised bed. We keep our house pretty cold (too cheap to turn on the heat) so they’re on a heat mat, under grow lights for about 10 hours a day.
I planted some tomato seeds (five different varieties) last Saturday in potting soil; here is what they look like after one week, under the grow light:
Here in East Tennessee our last-frost date is around April 22; my plan is to get the tomato plants in the ground the first weekend in May.
Still waiting on some hot pepper seeds that I ordered to come in, so I can get those started as well.
We have 8" of snow but I have graph paper out today to plot where everything will go. We planted cover crops of peas/oats and I sincerely hope the work of turning them in will not make me sorry I advocated for that!
S and his family are in town. He took his dog out to go potty for the night and our trespassing digger was there. He said it was too small for a raccoon. Thank goodness not a skunk. (We’ve been through that with the dogs!) Going with an Opossum.
Not exactly gardening, but I got into raising monarch butterflies last year
That’s doing your part!!!
I hope to start some seeds inside this weekend. Just for fun - if any pan out great, if not, I still enjoy the process!
I think that I still have some of those floppy disk file boxes in my office. 
I’m glad to know that they can be repurposed!
I thought I’d try to plant some flowers this year since I switched from pine bark to pine mulch and it’s much easier to dig around in. However, we have a huge deer issue where I live, they eat all the deer resistant shrubbery, and there is plenty of food around these days so not sure why. I don’t want to pay a lot for something that may be eaten shortly after planted. I wandered over here to see if any of the C/C gardeners might have a favorite annual and perineal online plant place to order and ship with fair pricing? Not seeds, plants.
I don’t order plants online but please tell us if you find something the deer will resist!
I was looking at Pink Diamond Dicentra, it’s supposed to be deer resistant and bloom spring-fall. If I do find it and plant it, I’ll let you know. I have actually started putting netting over my deer resistant shrubs when they start sprouting new leaves in the spring (like now) because even if deer resistant, I guess they can’t resist the bright green sweet baby sprouting leaves.
We are at a new to us house and there are LOTS of deer around so I will take note when things bloom as to what we’ve got and then what they leave alone! Luckily part of the yard is fenced in has protected lots of bushes, roses, hydrangeas there. They could probably jump the fence but the several neighbors near us don’t have fences so they have plenty easier spots to explore!
Speaking of the devil!! 
Saw 3 deer 
slowly walking down our street today. Surely enough, as soon as I let for work, they ended up in our yard sniffing at my plants. Fortunately, daffodils, hyacinths, and daphne did not appeal to them. None of these are edible. Take that, deer!
The first crocus always makes me smile! (although the pictured bloom may actually be a snowdrop or other crocus season bulb). Of course I’m in Colorado, so still likely to have some winter storms left. Still I liked the sunny/50s weather and got out in the yard for some cleanup.
My first sign of spring too. Our first ones appeared a couple weeks ago. The daffodils are JUST starting to pop!
We got a dump of wet snow in Colorado (water which is always eagerly accepted). Schools were switched to online, some stores closed etc. I had to go out with a broom to knock heavy snow off shrubs. This is the season we locals jokingly refer to as “Springtime in the Rockies”.
My forsythia had started to bloom a bit in the recent 60s/sunshine. Not the yelllow buds
