Spring is just around the corner and now is the time to get all those spring projects ready for a burst of color. A great time for cleaning the debris off the bottom of our ponds. Getting manure on our gardens and tilled in good so it has time to settle in and won”t hurt tender roots. In a couple of weeks it will be time to fertilize the bamboo along with some other plants as well. Then a good layer of mulch for everything in the yard and we will be off to a great start. As for the greenhouse I”m going to see if I can keep it going all through the year. Finally, I will be able to grow some veggies that will not be eaten by the local wildlife. For many years now I have made several attempts at growing corn but I have them going great and we get a big windstorm and it flattens them everytime and then come the critters to eat what they can reach and what they can”t reach they pull it down and devour the rest. Not anymore no wind and no critters in the greenhouse. I hope this will be the year that I finally get to actually eat some of the Silver Queen. And tomatoes don”t even get me started, it seem just as the plants are looking great and starting to put out tons of blooms along come the hungry deer and eat them all the way to the ground. Very frustrating to say the least. Or try about 5 or 6 rows of beans that have just come up about a week or two earlier only to be eaten to the ground by those cute little dastardly bunnies. Squirrels can be a nuisence as well when you”ve just planted like 150 tulip bulbs and come back the next couple of days to find the holes reopened and the bulbs are gone. Those little buggers love tulip bulbs darnit. Both rabbits and squirrels eat my baby bamboo shoots. Things are going to change this year as I am taking back my garden and putting it under glass. I am already enjoying the benefits of having a greenhouse and I urge you to do the same. Here is a list of the plants already growing in the greenhouse; Bamboo, Banana trees(dormant), Plumeria, Bird of Paradise(dormant), Radishes, Corn, Hostas, Hydrangeas, and numerous cutting just taken about three weeks ago. These include; dwarf alberta spruce, magnolia tree, willow tree, weeping willow tree, cherry tree, lilacs, clumping bamboo, azaeleas, boxwood hedges, and forsythia bush. These are all just for experimental purposes only. For my knowledge and practices. I found that the best way to learn is through trial and error. Better to have tried and failed than to never have tried at all. It’’s amazing to me sometimes what actually works. I find it very rewarding to be able to cut a part off of a plant stick it in some soil and grow an exact duplicate of the original plant. Or to grow something from seed to have it grow into a beautiful plant. I started some seeds from a hosta that I have in my yard now I have about 100 little baby hostas it’’s awesome. Gotta go for now. Thanks for reading.