So, 1st lot of broad beans up, just done the second sowing, 1st lot of peas in today and I have beetroot and carrots up.

Red and white onion sets on their way and i have just put in lettuce that i had sowed in the greenhouse 3 weeks ago.

Sowed corgettes, french beans, toms and steet squash in the greenhouse for planting out in a month or so.

How you getting on in Canada? Or the UK for that matter!

fletch

..... Calgary.

High-rise condo although I do grow some herbs.

Hence the reason you can fish so often....maram lakes for me in the Morning.

Not even the tip of a tulip yet - I checked again yesterday, after the previous day's snow had melted!

I really quite dislike April. It teases you constantly, then dumps some snow, then warms up and teases you again - then dumps again. And it's still brown - though I can see a hint of green on the golf course greens.

I won't even plant anything till June. 'Tis a wickedly short growing season here.

Keep me posted. What are you planning to grow?

It will all thaw soon.

Yeah but, no but ..... see Ann m's post above!

Actually I HAVE seen some (I think they were) tulips and some lilies of some sort in somebody's sheltered south-facing flower bed that were several inches high this week, and most definitely green. So things ARE starting to grow in certain situations ....

We had breakfast out on the deck this morning, me in short-sleeved top, although there are still some lumps of snow in the garden when the sun hasn't got to it.

No, herbs for cooking. I don't get into any of that hippie malarky. I leave that nonsense to the locals to stupefy themselves.

that did not cross my mind.

If you don't approve of tobacco, you can guarantee I don't approve of the other.

We are only just seeing more grass than snow this week. My job later this afternoon is poop patrol

Then we are putting out the second best patio set (the spare, the good one is at the new house) and the muskoka chairs to make the front porch have more curb appeal.

This year our gardening efforts will be chopping down the knee length grass at the new place and dismantling the crumbling pond feature, clearing the land of where the big garage is going and hopefully building a deck and putting up some 'keep the dog' fence.

Someone please remind me why the new place was a good idea...

Will you bother to grow anything that you an eat? fruit trees for example..A nice plum should rippen before the frosts come again?

We will get to have a proper veg patch eventually, it won't be this year and as for plum trees, I think we are too frosty for those in Alberta and we certainly won't get anything planted this year and probably what we do plant in future will get eaten by deer (according to a friend who plants flowers every summer and ends up with green stalks and no colours).

We will be interested to see what grows in the new place, to see if we have anything but grass and trees, ahh we'll see. We were talking today and we hope that the grass will stand up so it'll make it easier to cut at the moment it's pretty flat to the ground and really long - that's the first summer, outside job

Probably keep it simple - carrots, beans, onions, lettuce - maybe some tomatoes in some pots. We have this nasty habit of going on holiday for a couple of weeks in the summer, and due to not having installed any irrigation, stuff keeps dying off. So - it all depends on our plans and how much I want to bug my neighbour.

I'm sure it will all look lovely, oh, in about 8 years!

Coaxing the land here into looking vaguely garden-like takes more effort and money than I have at my disposal. I add a few more plants each year, and my first ones (that have survived) are actually big enough to start splitting now. I even got bucket loads of stuff from a guy at work last September, so I'm excited to see if it all comes up again soon. I reckon in another five years, it'll look pretty good!