I love this time of year.  I love to dig in the dirt and put in the little seedlings and seeds in the rich black dirt knowing it won't be long until I'll be reaping what I've sown. In this case, there will be tomatoes, yellow squash, zucchini and greenbeans and it wasn't rich, dark dirt but mostly sand with a mixture of the good stuff for good measure. 

I can taste that chocolate zucchini cake now. 

I haven't had a real garden for a few years now.  The best I've been able to do the last couple of years is plop a couple of tomato plants in big pots.  While enjoyable not the same as having a plot to plant in. 

So I took the opportunity yesterday to plant just a little garden on the side of the house that was recently dug up by the landscapers we hired for the front of the house this past week.  Part of the deal was they would take out a bunch of shrubs and perennials in the back of the house to ready the area for an upcoming addition we are planning on later this spring.  They replanted these plants on the east side of the house that had nothing there.  Now that side is cut out nicely and planted.  That leaves the back was just sitting there empty.  So I jumped in with my shovel and rake and made myself a little garden.  Now I can sit back and just wait about 50 days to see how my little Florida garden does. 

It's a bit different down here.  Everyone around me just plops their plants in the sandy dirt we have. They say that's all you have to do.   I miss my rich black loam back home.  I did sprinkle in a bag or so of the good stuff but it seems to get quickly swallowed up by the surrounding sand.   Also I was told not to plant on the South side but prefably on the East side of the house.  That's because the sun is too hot.  So I'm hoping the Northeast side of the house will be ok.  Time will tell.  This is my little experiment.  It gets afternoon sun only. 

On Monday and Tuesday the landscaper, with four strong, young workers, came and planted four gorgeous twenty foot Palm Trees on the South front of my house.  They're huge and make a very big difference to the front of the house.   With flowers, landscape rocks and a newly built slate wall the house looks beautiful.   We waited more than a year while everyone else had theirs done.  It's usually done within months of moving in.  We waited, took our time and picked up some ideas before we took the plunge. 

 This was much easier than picking paint.  I still can't get that all figured out yet.