Garden Ramblings - Seeds and starts.

Garden Ramblings is a feature created by Karen from For What It's Worth Reviews.  I not only get blogging and book advice from Karen, but gardening too.  And because I want to be just like her, I decided to share what's "growing on" in and around my yard too.

Last summer I created a NOLA garden on my front porch.  I liked it so much that I decided to expand my gardening plans.

We have a garden on the side of our house and I was digging up Sassafras roots and little saplings that popped up.  Sassafras trees are very prolific.  

Then we mulched.  I'm about 3/4 done. 

Up here in the tri-state area of NY, the recommendation is not to plant outside until after Memorial Day.  I was getting antsy so I decided to try to grow some things from seeds.  To the right are tomatoes.  I cheated a bit and got a "kit" from Home Depot.  The little shoots pushing through in the clear container are Morning Glories. 

These are the tomatoes about a week later.  They grow up so fast (sniff/sniff). 

Moonflowers.  

Broccoli.  

My friend told me about this method.  This way, I don't worry too much about animals chewing on them.  I'm sure they could if they really wanted to, but so far so good.  I'm leaving the broccoli outside now since I was advised they are a "cold weather" plant.  

More broccoli.  When they get big enough and I dig out my vegetable garden I'll replant them.  

I'm pretty new to gardening since I was never very good at it.  But I think now I understand that you really have to put time into your plants and I really do enjoy it.   If anyone has any advice for a novice gardener please let me know!