i've been having some updating issues...sorry this is just a test to see if my email is showing up near my username..thanks for understanding!!! happy new year!!

Sharon, You're ahead of me, but I expect to get my onions, at least, planted no later than tomorrow. So many chores to do out there in the garden and so little time. We need to mow the pastures down short today. We always leave them standing for as long as possible so the wild creatures can eat the seeds and such, but once fire danger reaches a certain point, it is time to mow stuff down short, short, short and I think we are at that point now. The upside to mowing is that we'll collect the grass clippings and I'll be able to put them down as the first layer of mulch in the pathways to replace last year's mulch which I've been scooping up into the beds as it now has decomposed and is lovely compost. Paula, I hope you can make it happen, but understand if you cannot. Sometimes there is only so much that a person can squeeze in. All of us need each other now more than ever before, particularly if posts keep getting cut off, removed, etc. We can't let them destroy our helpful family/army of Oklahoma gardeners, so I hope they can fix the issues that are driving people crazy.

I was hoping they had all the gremlins rounded up and moved out but apparently they missed a few! It has been very strange lately. Yesterday I was trying to reply but there was no submit button for me to push. I did not realize it till I had written the whole reply of course. I copied it and eventually the submit button reappeared.

Link works for me on my desktop. Looks great Pete! Thanks for the photos. I agree, there is something great about watching a tiny tree grow into something substantial. The majority of my plants started as puny mail orders. Only now have I started buying larger size plants and stretching my plant budget.