The Plants Point of View

My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. - H. Fred Ale

I aspire to develop a green thumb following this sage advise. Many times I feel as though I do more wrong than I do right. I do try however, to observe life more and more from the plants point of view. I have been gardening for about 4 years now and I finally bought a soil pH/nutrient test.

I'm curious to see where my garden soil stacks up. I will test the garden, front yard, dog run, worm castings from the bin and the potting soil i made this weekend. (Peat, Vermiculite and Plant tone Organic 5-3-3 measured to taste and mixed.

My daughters bought Aster, Poppies and Petunias and I couldn't help my self I bought cucumber , plum tomato and cherry tomato seeds. The tomatoes got their start this weekend and the flowers will go in homemade milk container pots when the weather breaks. Which by the looks of things wont be until later this week. Seems like South Jersey got off a little better than Chester County PA in terms of snow.