I know it's a few days early. El Nino has me getting my property cleaned up early this year too. From cutting the grass, pruning bushes, raking up wave after wave of sweet gum balls, cutting out honeysuckle vines, raking leaves, root pruning my potted figs and cleaning out old berry canes, I have been busy. I have the growing fever bad this year to plant as much as I can. I'm on my second wave of planting seed.  I have never put my potted plants out so early.

Are you growing anything new this year? Trees, shrubs, fruits or veggies? Got any landscaping projects this year? Anyone putting in a water feature? Have you started dragging things home from the garden stores? Come on, I know we all grow more than figs. Do you have the grow fever too?

Hey, NHardy: Happy Earth Day to you!! I have made lots and lots of trips to Lowes, Home Depot, OSH and Armstrong! Wherever they have a good price on soil, mulch, etc.

A new fruit for me is growing mulberries that a nice F4F member (thanks Igor!!) gifted me. So far they are growing though it is touch and go. Some days my plants look good and other days they look sad. Something is not completely balanced, I know. I would feel horrible if i killed these.

As far as watering, I decided to try DIG drip irrigation for some of my pots. It will be in the experimental stages for a couple of weeks so if anyone has any advice, I am open to receiving it.

Meg

I still have some black raspberry canes to plant from Nourse that I got the other day. I repotted some of my tomato plants yesterday as they wait to be planted in the ground. My pepper plants are slowly getting bigger. I started way to many of them. Now I'm off to get some bulbs to plant.