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Yea Grammy, you are growing a garden this year!!! Let me know how the deer repellent works.

I’m going to double the size of my garden this year, and try to freeze, and maybe can some veggies.

I have a small garden in raised beds and fenced. Fencing is a must, because of the deer.

I think a lot more people will be growing gardens now, and getting seeds and plant sets may be a problem. I noticed it last year, when I couldn’t find onion sets. I live 10 miles from town, and everytime I’d go to the Coop, Walmart, they’d say they had them, but they were gone by day’s end.

Off topic, have any of you heard from gardengirl lately? I have scanned a few gardening threads and haven’t seen her in a while. Hope she is okay.

Think I am going to try to the newspapers in the garden, like the other poster suggested. Also, it would be neat if JustaDumbBlonde could post that photo again of her garden, and way of controlling weeds.

Hi girlangler! So nice to hear from you. Here are the photos that I had posted previously, showing the landscape fabric that I used in the garden. This was my '07 garden, but I did the same thing on a larger scale in '08. I intend to expand again this year. Don't think that I will ever go without it again as it allows you to put all of your time into production. Not a single weed.

I believe that it was Gabz that said that the landscape fabric would last longer if I put some straw or bark mulch on top, but I didn't have access to cheap straw and bark mulch was cost prohibitive. I did get 2 years' use though, as I planted a winter crop of broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage on the '07 beds.

Hey y’all!

**Haven’t seen her in awhile. Hope she’s ok.**

Was just thinking the same about you, girlangler! How’s it going?

Still here, just enjoying the breathing space that is getting smaller by the minute! We do a lot of store cleaning this time of year, and inventory, and other fun stuff that we don’t have much time for otherwise.

We have to recover our greenhouse this year—the plastic is only good for about 4 years and then it gets milky and doesn’t let in enough light. Double layer, so it takes a few people, and somebody has to mind the store! Greenhouse plastic is like a fire—no matter how calm it is when you start, it attracts wind like moths to a flame, and then it becomes a sail. :)

We’ve got most of our seeds in, and we started some broccoli and cabbage Sat. Late start for us, but the last few years we’ve had a mild Jan and cold Feb and March. We’ve already had people in asking about onions and taters. They should be arriving in about two weeks. Gotta do some lettuce, spinach, chard, brussels sprouts, etc. Ran out of time and daylight—and energy!

We got our figs pruned and have several hundred cuttings started. About 2/3 of them will root. 3 varieties this year and another possible. Also have some yellow Angel trumpets started and some Confederate Roses. They’re leafing out really good.

The weather is up and down, like girlangler’s. 70 one day and 20 the next. I did notice the other day that the oak trees are bronzing up. They’re gonna get zapped next week. Calling for highs in the 30’s.

I really envy those of you that don’t have to fight weeds and insects so much. Here, it’s never ending. Literally, by the time you finish a row and go back to the other end, more weeds have already sprouted. And no insecticides? Forget it. Everything we plant would be gone overnight or ruined beyond salvage! Not spray fruit trees? There’d be no point in planting them. I love living in the sunny south, but it has a few drawbacks.

OTOH, if I could just figure out a profitable market for fireants... LOL Gbaby got into them today picking dandelions.