Many things grow in the garden that were never sown there.  ~Thomas Fuller, Gnomologia, 1732
 

The problem with gardening blogs and journals is that they are written by gardeners.  

And that of course means that at the very time when everything is freshest, I'm nodding at the keyboard instead of writing anything sensible that will be coherent in the morning :)

Yet to garden is to be an incurable optimist ... so once again, I'll give it a shot.  I suspect that with spiraling food and gas prices this year that there will be quite a few new to the gardening game this year.  

A couple of changes.   This year I've moved away from the blog format ... it just makes more sense to have the journal as part of the site with all the other gardening bits, eh?   That way it will have the same first day first sequence that paper journals so and hopefully it will be more help to any first time gardeners out there.

Will I get everything done on this years gardening to do list?  Probably not .. at least for this year, eh?

As always, the season starts with an ambitious list .... with hardscaping there is the outdoor cattery, to build the waterfall for the pond out back, to move the shed back UP the hill and create some sort of bin by the road for recyclables that can do double duty as a bigger version of my civic number.

And after last year's visits from the deer ... whereupon most of my herbs and annual flowers became midnight snacks ... topping the list is a scarecrow or two :)

We'll just have to see whether this year's reach will exceed the actual grasp :)