Winter time is the perfect time for dreams of spring. Purusing the seed catalogs and sketching out plans for when the weather warms up. Curled up in the recliner or snuggled up in bed with visions of the new improved garden bed or deciding would a plum tree or a cherry be better right there? Which variety of tomatoes do I want to try this year? Most seed books are free, just request them on their web site and then wait for them to come in the mail. You could look at their items on line, but thats just not as nice as sitting in the recliner with a nice cozy afghan and some hot herbal tea.
Some of my personal plans are to:
1) Upgrand the bed in my backyard. It is currently just a bed without a border of any kind. Lots of mulch around 4 trees. I pulled back some mulch and planted a few tomatoes and peppers last year and some herbs around the trees. This year I want to make a border out of some old lumber and make it about 6 inches deeper, keeping some open area for veggies and planting more herbs around the trees and in the back.
2) I would like to also create some raised beds out of that lumber around the sides of my yard, inbetween the sprinkler head placements. All of these would be for seasonal plantings.
3) I have some blueberry bushes along one side of the house that need some attention this spring.
4) We live in the first house of a subdivision, so one side of our back yard borders the road. There is a mulched area between the road and our fence that used to have some flowering trees. The two that were outside of our fence line have died and I'm thinking about replacing them with cherry trees. The will have nice flowers in the spring like the other trees that didn't die and then fruit for me afterward. The road isn't too busy so I think that should be fine.
