Well, the seed catalogs are coming! It's hard to envision being outside
and puttering around in the garden when it's so cold, but with the
catalogs comes this year's plan. What's everyone doing?

We're going to go with tire gardening this year. This should help with
some of the issues we had last year (cool yucky wet soggy soggy
weather). Plus, I'm looking forward to easier weeding plans.

I'm planning on 20 tires worth of plants. One tire will hold one tomato
plant so 3 better boy tomato plants, 1 cherry tomato plant, 2 bell pepper
plants, 3 jalapeno plants (1 tire) for the first row. Probably 2 summer
squash plants and 2 zucchini plants and a tire full of onions. One tire
of carrots. One tire of fingerling potatoes. One tire of red potatoes.
One tire of spinach, one tire of curly leaf lettuce, one tire of garlic.
That's our plan. Plus, if the in-laws are going to do a garden we'd
probably do corn and green beans over there, plus anything else Linda is
willing to take care of. The strawberry patch is over there as well.
Also, I told my husband that all those holly berries were getting ripped
out of the yard (we have a little one who loves to be outside) and I was
going to start putting productive plants along the fences. I'm thinking
mint in one area and then raspberries along the back.

Heather H.