I can Garden, Yah right!?!

When I bought my little magic cottage some 17 years ago I envisioned the yard beautifully landscaped in some old fashion country cottage style.  Regrettably the yard is in no better condition than the day I bought it.  I have discovered lawn care is hard work and even though I love the smell of freshly mowed grass, that is about all I love about the maintenance.  I have considered hiring someone to do the landscaping for me.  That is until I started asking friends how much they paid to have their landscaping done.  Wow!  Actually I believe the landscaper deserves every nickel he received for his services.  As I said, lawn care is a lot of work.  My problem is that it just isn't in the budget.

So what's a girl to do?  One chapter in my new book You Can Do It is called Dig It.  This chapter supposedly gives guidance for gardening.  I say supposedly because I haven't read it yet.  Once completing the steps laid out in the book I will have a beautifully manicured lawn and will have also earned a Gardening Merit Badge.  Guess I had better get that book out and start reading.  Spring won't wait around for me to get around to it and I am told that is when planting begins.  The wind is picking up so perhaps we will have more rain.  Can't dig and plant in the rain.  Saved for another day.