Plans for the spring?

[gumbogumbo]

What are you all planning for this spring? I'm thinking cucumbers, radishes, lettuce, and strawberries for me. Marigolds to fend away a bug or two. I only container garden, so I have to get myself a decent trellis before the season starts. Maybe this year I'll actually use compost. What about you?

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[jottingprosaist]

I'm frustrated and disappointed at the very limited garden space available to me at my rental home. The only "garden" space in the yard is overgrown with bushes and trees. I've done my best to prune them back, even though what I really want to do is rip out half of the young elms that probably sprouted by accident and grew from neglect (Previous tenant AND landlord both didn't give a shit, based on the way I found this place. :/ )

Anyway. I have some bulbs planted in what little dirt remains available, so hopefully spring will bring daffodils! Plus marigolds, herbs, and jalapeno peppers in my pots. Definitely catgrass for the furbaby.

Fingers crossed that I'll be able to convince my landlord to let me rip out a strip of grass beside the driveway for a flowerbed. Then I'll go dig up a few clumps of wildflowers from beside the highway, and voila-- hardy climate-adjusted flowers, for free.

[bridgetmkennitt]

That sucks. :( Is it possible to have a container garden somewhere, somehow to expand your space?

[jottingprosaist]

Yes, I have 4 large pots, plus a few smaller ones, and an enclosed porch that will help me sprout seeds a little earlier in my chilly Canadian spring. I just miss having half a yard of dirt for a vegetable garden. And I'm grumpy about the existing garden space being overgrown with trees I can't destroy without permission lol. They're choking each other but I can't dooooo anythingggg...