I think I’m just going to turn this whole week into “garden week” — why not, since it seems to be the underlying theme to my activities around the house. Everyone else seems to be in the same spring mood…

Did you know how hard it was for me to find a simple strawberry pot this weekend??? No one seems to carry these practical terracotta pots en masse, but thank goodness an old local hardware store had some sitting outside…

On Friday, my Dad hopped up from the cooler coast and headed to our hot little house (then again, what part of CA wasn’t burning up this weekend? or today?) to help with lots of crazy projects we had on…

The first seedlings are in the ground, so it’s time to plant once again using the Burpee Ultimate Growing System. This time around I’ve got lots of annual seeds that I purchased, so we’ll see how they do sprouting in…

Thanks to Burpee’s Ultimate growing system, we have a flourishing plate of seedlings ready to pop in the ground outside. These just happen to be a bunch of perennials that I picked up at Lowe’s (where we bought the kit…