What is your favorite season of the year? Mine has always been Spring. I love the smell in the air of Spring rain, the beauty of trees that bud and leaf in a matter of days, bulbs that miraculously surface and burst into welcome bloom.
Of course it is a season that has a “to do” list for most of us, so why not get ready now. It is not too early to begin planning for Spring. Here in the Midwest early garden planting of peas, onions, potatoes, and lettuce for example normally are planted on or near St Patrick’s Day. If your a vegetable gardener make sure the ground is ready, have the seeds on hand and get the hoe and gloves out you will need them very soon now.
Take inventory of what needs to be done in your lawn and garden both. What shrubs require Spring pruning, do you have some tree limbs you have been putting off trimming back, do you need to aerate the lawn, clean up garden pots for replanting?
The list can be endless but if you have a list and check it off with some “honey do” or child bribery for a movie night to help along the way it will all be done in time for you to sit back with a smile and watch the early Spring flowers show off.
Don’t forget our feathered friends need us to give their homes a housecleaning too.
My children as grown adults recount some of their most pleasant family memories were in the time we spent preparing garden and flower beds.
Spring IS just around the corner friends.
I agree with the fond memories. I still miss having a vegetable garden. We may have complained at the time, but when I look back I really enjoyed the time spent there and the sense of accomplishment it gave me too.