Woo hoo!! I finally got my garden going, after a month of the kind of rain MMario has been faithfully reported. Since we're tilling ground that has never been managed before, which still has roots and rocks and BOULDERS buried, I had to wait for the local farmer boy to come with his heavy-duty tiller, and he had to wait for a chance to dodge raindrops. But now, I have a 12X20-ish plot with lettuce, spinach, beans, beets, tomatoes, basil, carrots, potatoes, onions, garlic, jalapenos, and sugar pumpkins,

And I've been starting the flowers as well. Planted my first rose-bush, a gift from my chorus. Got the dahlias in, bought some black-eyed Susans and bee balm at a local school plant sale, and planted a border of annuals to make it pretty for a family party this weekend.

Got 2 honeycrisp apple trees from the county extension service- wish me luck!

Mulch, MMario? All I wanted in this world was buckwheat hull mulch, and I looked all over, and finally found the local Agway selling it at $20 a bag!!. So, the rosebush gets it, and the apple trees, and the small shoots from the "wedding lilac" we were married beside, but everything else is going to have to wait till I make a bit more money!

Cueing the "Pushing Spring Tango"