March - mad March. Back when I put the gardens to bed & counted weeks until gardening could legitimately start again, it seemed like it was going to be a long haul. I couldn't honestly remember when things started happening in the spring. To be safe with my expectations & dreaming, I thought I'd best not plan on anything going until until April 15th or thereabouts.

What I hadn't counted on was the winter we had. More accurately - the lack of it. An average winter sees a total...

I never knew having my very own, 'do what you want' garden could be so satisfying on so many levels. I spent years helping others, especially my aunt before she died; with their gardens, did small gardens in homes we had on short term rental & did a front garden when I worked as a super. But never was I ever given a free hand the way I have been with my current efforts.

I spent a time of sweat & blisters last summer digging, weeding, adding proper soil, ahem - 'expanding'...

I'll warn anyone trying to read this now - this is NOT necessarily going to be especially reader friendly. I need a place to keep track of my gardening efforts because my memory is not what it used to be. And it will no doubt, be a useful place to unload frustrations when plants don't do what they're supposed to do.

My new super, when I moved in, made one big mistake. We were standing in one of the bedrooms after the walkthrough when I was getting my keys & I happened to glance...