All I did today was pull out some bolting lettuces from a pot and replace them with caladiums and impatiens.
I'm glad I didn't sell my grow light shelving unit, trays and ABS blocks. I think I can find a place in the house to set the unit up this winter to start plants from seed. The house faces south, and the windows along the front of the house are all good and big. I enlarged the window in the dining area of the kitchen, which I use as "family room", so that space, the living room, and the spare bedroom all get good, bright light during winter when the leaves are off the trees. I might even be able to grow lettuce and greens during winter using the lighted shelving in front of one of those big windows.
What made me think of it was caladiums. I can never find the varieties I want at nurseries and garden centers, and in the past have bought "bulbs" and started them under grow lights in late January or early February. I've always grown them in pots before, but with all this shade, they would be nice additions to some garden beds.
Hope to dig out poison ivy tomorrow. Have been saving cardboard boxes, and may also lay out some beds by laying down the cardboard, covering it with layers and layers of newspaper, then shredded leaves I saved from last fall.
The slugs are devouring my basil.
Something appears to be nibbling away on the new growth of the Japanese Painted Fern I planted a few weeks ago. The Ghost fern lloks just fine.