Fall and Winter: What’s a gardener to do?

1. Sleep deeply under warm wool blankets, dreaming.

2. Fall: yard and garden cleanup, mulching, admiring foliage.

3. Winter: Bundle up in a wool sweater while sipping tea from your herb garden and looking at seed catalogs. Plan ways to outsmart the squirrels and bunnies.

4. Read a good gardening book –

Novice Gardener’s Guide to Raised Bed Gardening

In the beginning, I am…

Twisting gardening rules daily

I mean really…with the number of squirrels we have, you’d think their garden would be top of the line! Instead, I blame most of some of the mayhem and chaos around here to their improper gardening skills. Welcome to my chaotic gardening world where squirrels do most of the planting while I carry on about how it should be in a perfect world. Humor being the greatest coping mechanism known to mankind.