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Spring

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With two consecutive days of 50 degree weather (balmy huh!) my thoughts are turning to gardening. I am itching to get out and get my spring garden planted! I love picking early lettuce and spinach, and watching for those little pea shoots to come up! In past years I would be out as early as this planting all my cool weather crops, but this year we have so much snow (say prayer of thanks) that I am sure it will be a few more weeks before I can go and work my soil. This year I am thinking of doing some box gardens. I have a small garden plot in my yard, but I want to do more. Last year I had my PIC dig up a bunch of grass to make my garden bigger and he told me that after this he would be doing no more digging up grass and expanding gardens! (can you hear him putting his foot down? ha! I think for the last 7 years I have had him digging up grass to expand either the garden or a flower bed, the poor guy is plain sick of it!) So, to get around his decree I am going to try box gardening, I won’t have to pull up any grass, just plop the boxes down, round-up the grass underneath, and vola, we are good to go! Now I just have to convince my PIC that this will be a good idea…….

I can see my mom, shaking her head, saying “you are just like your Dad!”