Green Thumbs Canada

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

wow eek sigh breathe
For the 3rd year my friend Lisa and I have shared our gardening passion. From a 6 x10 ft itsy bitsy square Lisa jumped into gardening and grew magnificent morning glories, herbs, corn, tomatoes, lettuce and the tiny front garden had lilac, four o clocks, sunflowers, zinnia, portulaca, hens n'chicks, and by the end of the summer my balcony flowers found refuge in Lisa's garden.. amazing jumps in size, color and blooms we both knew this was it.. watching plants grow and eating garden grown vegetables, there is nothing better for our souls.

Last year Lisa moved into a gorgeous heritage house and we almost fainted with the size and the ideas that swept us away with growing. I found my southwestern balcony is fantastic for seeds as the concrete heats up and this weekend will be starting seeds inside and at this moment march 4th 2010 the balcony is 21F or 69F.. Unfortunately all our work was erased when the new owners decided to renovate which quickly became major renovations to outside and inside accompanied by fumes, styrofoam, dust and in the end a 20 ft metal container on top of most of our garden..

In the fall, Lisa started dating Chris, and it is so heartwarming to see a friend happy and loved. I consider Chris and Lisa good friends and Chris lives in a house that has a HUGE untamed garden complete with pond. Needless to say we are sooo excited to have space to choose and indulge our gardening habit.. stay tuned

To start this season off we have rejoined Dave's garden and all winter I read the 365 Days of Gardening: by Christine Alison and tried to lend it to Lisa but couldn't part with it so Amazon is sending Lisa a copy and watch out the gardening gals are loose... woohoo