Hello y'all! - September 11th, 2003 at 03:37 AM
I'm new here and I'm just slowly finding my way around this site. So far I love it!! Sounds like a great bunch of people, and I look forward to getting to know you all better. Well, about me, I am a novice gardener - this year was my very first. I live in Northwest Florida, originally from Pennsylvania (hated the cold, snowy, icy winters). My family all live up there, and me and my John bought a lovely house with a great, big backyard and we are both having a lot of fun making it into our little retreat. We both love flowers, trees the birds and bees, and especially butterflies. We've had some failures with the planting this past summer, and I've learned a little about what not to plant next year. Our biggest challenge here is the sandy soil, we have to amend it before planting anything, or it just won't grow. We too, have a couple of pine trees and have found the pine needles a blessing - great for mulch! Well, that's about it for now - but I am sure looking forward to getting lots more info from this site. Thanks for the nice welcome.
Suz
Suz