Tulips are subject to some rather nasty diseases. Planting in the same spot allows spores from the previous year to infect the new bulbs, even if you didn't notice an infection. No disease, no problem, but one day you will get bitten.

I am just so excited by the "last years tiny seedling perennials" tranformed over winter to this spring's healthy young perennials! Many of these got planted out early last year and then got sort of "lost in the sause" of the many annuals in full bloom. But they clearly were growing! The biggest happy dance? HOS Lady's Mantle coming up in many spots. I plopped down in the bed yesterday and dug up the group and split it up along a walkway. Had 9 "teenagers" that look like they will be beautiful full grown adults this season. Great leaves and love the flowers as fillers (like baby's breath) with roses.

Tomatoes LOVE to grow in the same place every year. If you add new composted soil and ammendments, they will be just fine. Don't need to worry about it unless you get some kind of virus or fungi in the soil. You can rotate what you plant next to them and that will help. Some plants are heavy feeders, like lettuce, and some do best grown in soil where heavy feeders were planted the year before, without any added nutrients, like carrots. Carrots LOVE Tomatoes. Others benefit from the shade they make, like lettuce & spinache. Dill, garlic, beets and bush beans do well near tomatoes, and planted near Asparagus, both tomato and asparagus benefit. You definitely cannot move asparagus every year or you wouldn't have much of a crop. So, just keep building your soil so that it is healthy, and . . .Ammend! Ammend! Ammend! ~ SweetAnnie4u

Charles, Yes, those tubs look similar to the ones that the molasses feed comes in, though I've also had some that are larger than those blue ones. We just drill drainage holes in the bottom of them for drainage and they make great containers. The colored ones fade more easily in the sun than the black ones do....or at least it shows more with the colored ones. My orange ones faded away to a light pink over a few years. My friend, Fred, who is still ranching and gardening at the young age of 94, had back surgery a long time ago(maybe 15 years ago or more) that made it hard for him to work in his garden. I convinced him to put tomato plants in some molasses feed tubs and now I believe he only grows tomato plants in feed tubs. What works for him (to eliminate bending and stooping) is to put the feed tubs up on a table, stone wall, etc. so they are about waist-high. He has been thrilled with how easy the plants are to maintain and harvest when grown in the tubs. He's the one that has given me molasses feed tubs. I have elevated some of mine merely by putting one of the tubs upside down on the ground and using it as a base for another tub set on top of it. I do that with greens grown in winter and early spring because it puts my greens up higher than the rabbits and other small varmints can reach, which keeps them from eating the lettuce and other greens. Next winter when CostCo gets the resin pots in stock, I'll try to remember to come here and post that they have them. We usually go to the CostCo stores in either Lewisville or Southlake and it seems like they get the pots in the stores around the same time the potted citrus trees arrive---so maybe in March. Possibly as early as late February. I love CostCo. We shop there a lot. Buying in quantity works for us since it is such a long drive to a store of any size at all. Sam's also has some nice very large pots in the springtime, but I found CostCo's to be a better price (surprisingly). One of my favorite planters is a large, galvanized metal stock tank. I've had mine about 25 years and the bottom is rusted out, but it is amazing how many plants you can grow in a container that size. I've even grown sweet potatoes and potatoes in it, though not at the same time. Filling it up with a soil-less mix is expensive, but I kept it more economical by gathering deadfall branches from the woods and filling the bottom 18" or so of the container with tons of them and then stomping them down as flat as I could to eliminate air pockets. I also used lots of spoiled hay on top of that bottom layer of wood, and then I mixed up my own version of Al's 5-1-1 mix and filled the rest of the container with that. Nowadays, I just top off the container every year by adding a few inches (more if needed) of compost to the top of soil-less mix in the container. I made hypertufa pots once. I remember that much. I don't remember how well they worked or how long they lasted. The older I get, the less well I remember things. They were really easy to make though. There's just not enough hours in the day for me to do many crafty things any more, but I used to make all kinds of stuff like that. Dawn