Happy Spring everybody!!!

[mischief]

Hope everyone has a happy spring and a really productive new garden year.

Have you made your new Spring resolutions yet?

[annette]

Happy Spring to you too!! I have just been able to go part time at work so in the busy planning and prep stage for the gardens at the moment. i want to do so much!! Keep getting distracted watching the birds building their nests etc. I love spring. Everything is born anew!!

[LonerMatt]

Mulch.
Try growing carrots again.
Try growing tomatoes and capsicums from seed.
Get a good harvest of onions

[sun burn]

Happy Spring to you Mischief.

I haven't made a spring resolution. I haven't heard of doing that before. I think i will hold off on making any resolutions for the moment. I've got enough that i am trying to do already. :-)

[pippimac]

My spring resolution is the same as it is every year: through regular additions of organic matter and mulch, my place will at no point revert to the parched sand from whence it came. By the end of summer, it's always reverted.
'They' are warning of a "drier than usual spring"...
Last year, it was a "windier than usual spring".
Give me dry anytime!

[eco4560]

My spring resolution is to finish the spring cleaning before it becomes summer cleaning. Though adding more organic matter sounds like a good spring resolution for me too. Make compost before it gets too hot to be turning piles.

[mischief]

It occurred to me that Spring is the start of the gardening year and after a gloomy cold winter I start to feel revitalized and less nervous about the coming.
I think we need to celebrate Spring more,its the promise of a bountiful year.

The violets have been saying for months now, 'Its coming ,its coming', The plum tree is shouting to the sky 'Its here, its here' and now that we have had afew really glorious days, Im starting to believe them

Hi Annette, I am having the same problem with watching the flock of Tui's that come every year to my neighbours Taiwanese Cherry tree.Every year there are more of them and I hope to be doing my bit soon to add to their food supply.

Loner, you and me both.

Hi Pippimagic,
My first thought was...I wonder if it would make a difference if you could get your hands on some big tree branches and bits of logs and partially buried them to help reform you soil.

haha,
I was thinking of how nice it would be if a House Brownie moved in and looked after the house for me so I could play outside.
Howe do you advertise for a Brownie though?
I promise to bake cookies every day and provide a whole bowl of fresh milk.
There that should do it.

Umm, I just realised that I havent even made my new spring resolution yet.
I have thought of lots of things I would like to get done but havent really formulated it into a battleplan tho.

[mischief]

I realised today that my new spring resolution is to be more systematic in my approach.
No more throwing things at the garden,patting it on the head and running away again.

The other thing Im going to do is work on companion planting and guild planting.

[pippimac]

hugelkulture's a big thing over on permies and it's been on my 'to try' list for ages.
Maybe scoring a trailerload of old logs to bury should be my spring resolution!

[Michaelangelica]

Funny that in Australia we decide Spring has started by the day traditionally used by the British jailers/occupation army/redcoats to change from their winter uniform. Really has little to do with the climate in much of the county; more our history as a penal colony.