I've Got an ITCH

And it's called spring planting ! FINALLY the weather has seen fit to be reasonable so I think we're ready to get the planting season started. I'm taking off next week and hope to get a LOT of stuff done -- including getting the garden ready for planting.

This year we've chosen to go the raised bed route, just because neither of us can bend, kneel or crouch anymore .... and if we DO find ourselves caught up in the rapture of the moment, someone had better have the fire dept on speed dial !

Anyhoo, I digress .......... this year we're "scaling down" and only planting : green snap beans, wax beans, sweet peas, pickling cukes, tomatoes (2 kinds), sweet peppers, carrots, turnips (purple tops), onions, beets, summer squash and of course the requisite salad mixings -- mesclun, redleaf, black seeded simpson green leaf. Yeppers now THAT'S what I call scaling back to a right proper easily handled garden ......... NOT ! Oh well, with prices of everything going up & up & UP, at least we'll have some produce to see us thru the summer & fall.

Now if I could only "grow" my own oil, have my own refinery & gas pump ,,,,,, I'd be set !! HAPPY PLANTING, FRIENDS !!! =)

take care .... stay kool .... be content