Time to get dirty!

So Tuesday was my first "official" day in the garden! Boy did it feel great! I got my small beds weeded, my compost stirred & added to (thanks to a big bag of partly-decayed leaves and dry grass from my workplace) and I relocated some of my raspberry plants that were growing outside of their boundary. I was out again today at the beginning of my lunch break from work and got the bed out front of our yard tidied up. It runs along the side of our driveway (which is shared with the tenants upstairs) and is home to a large array of tulips, daffodils, poppies, and some flowers I still have to learn the names of.

I really love this time of year - although I guess I equally love it later on once all of my plants are in the ground and I can watch them grow... I really enjoy getting rid of the dead debris from the fall and winter, and getting everything ready to go for when it's time to plant. It is very satisfying; and I think that it almost mirrors what we are all doing after the long winter - sorting through what is old and unneeded now and preparing ourselves for the warmer weather ahead.

I think one of the first things I am looking forward to, aside from getting my plants started & then planted later on, is the raspberries. We are very fortunate to have already had a large amount of raspberry plants here when we moved in, and I can easily pick 2-3 margarine containers full per day at the height of the season. I enjoy eating them fresh (and sharing them with my dogs, who are crazy about them!) and I love raspberry muffins!

I should be getting all the materials together this weekend to get my plants started indoors, so I will be sure to update soon! I hope you are all getting out in your gardens and enjoying yourselves while you do it!

Happy Gardening!