Garden club- have you planned your spring garden yet?

I love to spend winter thinking about what I'll plant in the Spring. Last year I missed out due to Surgery so I'm hot on it now.
Any one else want to talk garden?
Are you going to try anything new? I'd love to hear your plans and favorite seed sources etc.

I'm going to plant culantro for sure I just learned about it on Daisy cooks Latin. It's supposed to have the flavor of cilantro only bigger and more flavorful and it's used in Puerto Rican and other Latin cooking. I found a source on johnnyseeds.

I planted some basil seeds. I had a basil plant last year and used it alot in my cooking. It was doing wonderful, tall and bushy, than I walked outside one day and it was all dried up.

I am wanting to plant some more herbs this spring. I do have a rosemary bush that smells heavenly and I use alot of fresh rosemary in my cooking.

We just ordered a variety of Angel Trumpet cuttings. I didn't know it came in sooo many colors!
I have a rosemary bush that I use a lot in my cooking too. I hope to plant a few herbs again this year , including basil ( mine died too ).
I'm giving my DH another rose bush for Valentine's, so we'll have that too.

its never to early to think about spring!

BBQ i have never even heard of culantro

for christmas i received a chia herb garden, and i am waiting till it is a little warmer and brighter in my kitchen to start the seeds. i think it has some standard fare like parsley and dill for the seeds.

in march i am going on a bus trip with a couple of friends to the philadelphia flower show. maybe i will get some great ideas there. they have huge landscapes inside the convention center (they even bring in full grown trees) and all sorts of things to buy and grow. its something to look forward to.

jane321

I have been thinking about my garden for some time, last year I did not get chance to really do much expect brussels and leeks which we are enjoying now. I plan to rearrange the vegs. to a bigger patch and tidy up the rest of the garden, oh yes and put in a couple more apple trees cause the ones I have now are not fruiting very well.

I absolutely love gardening it is so theraputic.

We're in the process of redoing our whole garden. When we moved in it was very suburban and boring (a long narrow London garden), so we've got rid of the lawn and put in a York stone wide path, with three big beds on each side. I'll be doing it as an old-fashioned cottage garden - aquilegia, sweet peas, runner beans, pansies, roses, forget-me-nots, foxgloves, spring bulbs, a magnolia tree, all the things my Nan used to grow. I've ordered a stepover apple, 5 raspberry canes and some rhubarb crowns, and will grow assorted salad veg. At the end of the garden we're having a new shed and a greenhouse plus some compost bins, and the patio will get a new table and chairs along with my potting bench.

At least that was the plan for the summer; now I'm having the hyst, I shall sit in a chair and order DH to do it!

I'm planting more roses too, I get so greedy
Are angel trumpets like datura?
Our ancient peach tree finally went last year so I will miss it - it had the sweetest freestone peaches. Trying to decide whether to plant another fruit tree.

I'm so envious about the flower show, I wish we had something close by.

Oh I love the old-fashioned cottage garden idea. What is a stepover apple? Is it like an espaliered tree?

My herbs are bouncing back looking for the spring already and I have tulips coming up.

I'll probably do mixed flower and veg in my beds as usual, but I want more color this year and a bigger assortment of greens. I'm hooked on a simple green salad of butterlettuce and fennel with french vinaigrette right now, can't seem to get enough of them.

I'm ordering seeds tonight....yipee!

A stepover apple is like an L-shaped tree, with the short bit in the ground and then it veers off horizontally. Similar to an espalier or a fan in that it needs to be trained that way. Over here in the UK the best fruit trees are from a company called Ken Muir - very reliable.

Yes, Angel Trumpet is very similar to datura. They both have those big beautiful blossoms.
My favorite rose is the Peace but I love them all - especially the really fragrant ones - heaven!

HI Everybody! Ijust love gardening. In 1999 I started a Fung Shui garden, It was 12 sections of flowers, in different colors.I planted foxgloves, black-eye susans, the green part was spices, minuiture iris, purple iris, different types of lilies, daiseys,artimesia,peonies, ballon flower.There were others but can't think of them now. Gardens sleep, creep and leep...long story short mine is a lot of black -eyed susans growing all over. I was tried from work and also sick with gallbladder,slept a lot and watched myself this year because of hyster. So, in the spring will be transplanting the susies around my house and in my naturalistic garden by the creek that flows in back of house.
I love the garua plant, it looks like a bad hair day, but beautiful, so I will find a spot and plant some by them selves. In my shade have lots of hostas, started another bed.
I planted one tomato plant, got 8 tomatoes off it, after the very hot part of summer, I got 8 more tomatoes. I will find another spot and plant a few more, along with peppers,potatoes, onions. I buy annuals for color in the gardens also.
I have 75 gladiola bulbs that I must plant, I have to dig them up, for they will freeze here thru winter...
I love gardening, can help yous if needed, can learn from yous also.
I am also in NASCAR, and have a part shade garden named Adam Petty's place. He died qualifying for a race.
Later
FoxyJo