Is this blog going to turn into a gardening blog?

Actually, my brain has been taken over by gardening, so by default everything around me has some relation to gardening.  Margaret Roach's ( garden editor for Martha Stewart) country home and blog, A Way to Garden, was highlighted in today's NY tImes I am now completely inspired.

So, to start, Grape Vines are weird......they grow like wild fire, but the vines are very fragile. There is an ancient grape vine in my garden plot that was cut down to the quick and shoots are popping up like crazy. Everytime I went near these shoots they would fall off in my hand. 

Thanks to Flatbush Gardener, I found Cornell University's site for home gardening and have begun to figure out what to do. Keep trimming all the shoots but one, don't let any grapes grow the first year, and get an arbor.

Thanks to some annoying, but determined vole I need to defend my brussel sprouts. 

And just when I start to feel frustrated I turn around and see this...

and this ........

Sammy has to wait in the car, but he gets the last laugh

Comments

[margaret]

thank you for mentioning me on your blog...and welcome to the world of gardening, huh?

[margaret]

thank you for mentioning me on your blog...and welcome to the world of gardening, huh?

[margaret]

thank you for mentioning me on your blog...and welcome to the world of gardening, huh?

[margaret]

thank you for mentioning me on your blog...and welcome to the world of gardening, huh?

[margaret]

thank you for mentioning me on your blog...and welcome to the world of gardening, huh?