Before and After: A Simple Recipe

Maybe it's so easy because everything else in the winter is so hard -

And this winter has been really hard ... On everything - plants, pots, trees, my firewood stash, my back, my psyche -

Here's a simple recipe for a little slice of spring a few weeks early -

1.  Start with a bag of bulbs (from the local nursery, hardware store, big box retailer- they're

     becoming so popular I'm expecting to see them in the 7-11 next year)

2.  Add some empty pots ( I have lots of empty pots - the result of a bitterly cold winter and my lack of foresight) -

3.  Stick the bulbs in the dirt just below the surface (some nurseries are even selling the bulbs in the advanced stages of bloom for the lazy gardener) -

4.  Add some water - plant fertilizer optional -

5.  Sit back with a glass of wine and wait -

Viola!

  

A great way to ease into the spring —

Twenty days and counting ...