We're advancing into brush fire season here in Southwest Florida. People are clearing brush and burning it, causing big problems for people like me with asthma.

I'm shredding my yard waste and making lots of compost with it, looking forward to growing lots of okra and hot peppers for rice dishes.

lol I am getting the season changeing itch that is telling me its time to move again lol happens every three months or so this time instead of fighting it I think I am going to take the time to find the right place for us :)

The bees are a brand new hobby. I suspect we will be drinking fresh herb teas with store bought honey for a goodly while yet. Herbs would be my greatest passion. It takes years to establish a decent herb garden and we have only been here 6 months. I sure have missed my pharmacopia.

Just to celebrate the extra space, I might go hog wild and try some corn. Don't know that I have THAT much space and corn doesn't typically like the Texas heat, but it is just a hobby, after all. I hear bees like corn.

I envy your sunshine! WI is still wet, muddy and bleak (and I am loving every second of it, despite my finders twitching to get some dirt under my nails). Enjoy your new water fountain and bee abodes.

We could use some of that yummy rain in my neighborhood. My poor tropical backyard is starting to sag. I guess I'll have to turn on the sprinklers and give the water company a pay raise!

Reminds me...I'm going to try amaranth. I've got the seeds but got really depressed last year.
I'm in Houston, after corn (and everything) being a dud last year, I dunno whether I will try and plant much.
Malabar Spinach vine was a really good buy though, it's hard for me to kill...but I will not attempt squash at all-powder rot, it killed even the zucchinis.
I want to track down piquin pepper plants. I also want to go plant elephant ears...or as they are known in Polynesia: taro root, all plant parts are edible after cooking. There's elderberry bushes growing up the road, and yearly the powerline people come and mow them off. I want to dig them up roots and all, give them a new home in our yard.

My wife will not let me seed kudzu. I think kudzu is something I could not kill, all parts of the plant are edible....and the trailer we live in is fairly ugly, so turning it into a green mound sound swell.
I even know where some grows. *sigh*.
But she'd be angry...*thinks*

Today it was a beautiful 60 in NY! I'm jones-ing to get out and work in the garden. But who knows up here, 60 one day and a snowy 30 degrees the next.