Spring Time is for Gardens

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Yes, we have reached the best time of the year and it’s great to see spring has finally arrived. New flowers are blossoming and you can hear the birds chirping with more crispness in their chirps. So now is the time to start your spring cleaning chores and to start working up the land to plant our vegetable and flower gardens in. I’m sure a lot of people have already started and every weekend now the stores are filled with people buying their potting soil, seeds, plants and the garden decor for outside. It’s a chance to make a brand new start and apply all of our green thumb knowledge that we learned from the previous year.

I did learn some new things last year and I hope I won’t make the same mistakes again. Last year I planted my tomato plants too soon and they had to endure freezing temps as a late season cold front fell on North Georgia. We also suffered one of the worse droughts in our state’s history and another one is forecasted for this summer too. So I won’t be having a huge garden this year and will only plant a few tomato plants that I can water by hand if needed. We have done real well on the rainfall totals for 2008, but we still have a long ways to go and hopefully the wet stuff will continue to fall from the sky. It is nice to see our lakes and rivers filled up with water again and even the small creeks have a lot of life in them right now. I wish everyone luck with their gardens for 2008 and be sure to pass along any gardening tips you might have or any garden tips that you learned from last year.