  I'm itching to get back into the garden again -  I spent last weekend mixing in manure compost,  bone meal,  and blood meal to enrich the nutrients in my soil -  this weekend I'll start mixing in pine bark mini- chips to improve aeration and green sand for trace minerals .
 and then do a final soil test to make sure everything is in balance.  The bulbs are just starting to come up -  little ruby crocuses,  red striped and green flame tulips,  white daffodils,  fragrant hyacinth,
 delicate muscari,  " Grow,  grow,  GROW,  I want to sing out to them .
 and April 1 seems so far away .  that's the first date to start planting cool season crops like lettuce and onions and garlic and snapdragons up here .  then another long wait until May 1 to plant nearly all the other seeds -  peas,  zucchini,  chamomile,
 dill,  parsley,  alyssum,  lobelia -  and then 15 more days to wait for the real heat lovers,  and on May 15 AT LAST -
 I can plant the rest -  tomatoes,  eggpplant,  peppers,  sunflowers,  love-
lies- bleeding -  Yippppeeee!  I'm so excited I can't stand it!
