would like leafy 3 square seeds, orange cosmos, acorn squahs, wild grapes, rhubarb, royal red lettuce, mexican hat i have white angel trumphet seeds, money plant seeds, orange pumpkin bright large, mixed marigold, red sunflower, large bird house gourds seeds let me no or postage thanks oswego

Hi, I'm interested in the Collector's Garden by Ken Druse, and the Random House Book of Perennials. I have several different salvias and several different hardy geraniums if you are interested. We would have to hold off til spring however, as all my plants are currently "sleeping". Please let me know if you are interested. Deirdre

Thanks everyone. :o) Barb, I had the same thought. There's more to tackle on the property but that was the biggest and worst of it. It's good to have it at this stage. And actually, my boyfriend was outside the other day (between mulch batches). A neighbor stopped on her way while strollering with her grandchild just to compliment us on all our hard work. Cheers, Kate. LOL I have to wait to plant anything. The bed has to bake a while. there's so much woody debris in the soil from the roots, stems and all the nonsense that came out. We'll see what it's like after the rains of the summer. Guaranteed though that the azalea will NEVER get like it was in that first pic. I'm thinking some smaller ornamental grasses or something around the border. I have the summer to do some research though. Linda, thanks so much. :o) I look out from the porch and it's like a full body sigh of relief seeing it at this point. I drive up the street coming home and I feel like giggling not to have to contend with that vine et al anymore. There's still 2-3 cubic yards of mulch that needs to be spread but it looks 1800 times better at this point that I just had to share! :o)

I live in a rural area where it's pretty common for people to cut down trees. It might have been big pines. Last year a tree company went thru town taking down large pines. I don't know what the deal was but looked like a big mistake to me. I think you can get a quick start on vegetables if you do some simple raised beds or lasagna type beds. Well, you don't have the time for the lasagna beds to decompose this year but they would be ready for next year which is what I did when we moved June 1, 2007. You might check out permaculture ideas. Google Hugelkultur beds which look like they are built on piles of brush. I'm not experienced with these but you might find somebody in your area who is experimenting with them. Check out local permaculture groups on meetup.com We don't have rabbits but we do have deer. So far since I originally used deer repellant after they lunched on hosta, we have not had a problem. One possibility is there is plenty for them to eat in our area. We have about 4 that graze nearby. They did get some late fall cabbages last year but didn't touch the garden all summer. I've had good luck getting free or low cost (small fee for loading our utility trailer) aged manure. You could get some large tomato plants right now and grow in large pots to have something this summer. Ditto on growing some lettuce and simple things. At least in our area the plants are on sale right now but will probably be tossed in another week or two. There's still time to plant summer squash and cucumbers and beans. I think I would concentrate on doing a small project well and prepping for next year. You might be able to put raised beds over stumps. Since they are not sprouting makes me think they are pine or hemlock. It depends on what your budget can handle for stump removal. My husband was able to de-stump a field with borrowed equipment and had time to do so. Since I use the lasagna method, I don't need a tiller but I built on thick sod not stumps. Good luck!