Winter was weird.  Again.  The pond has gotten a little water back into it, but winter didn’t bring us nearly enough rain to fill the pond back up or help with the drought situation.  The frequent high winter winds did drop the wind chills and make it miserable to be outside, even if it wasn’t wet enough for a more normal Texas winter though.

Now that March is here, it is nice to start seeing a bit more sun and experience some mild Spring days.  Even if it isn’t officially spring yet.  (I won’t hold my breath that the mild pleasant temps will stay.  I am fully expecting it to be 90+ degrees starting in a few weeks.  As usual. :/ )  Even though the weather here isn’t always pleasing, it IS pleasing to see signs of spring sproutin’ in our new mini greenhouse!

For $20 on sale, I just couldn’t pass up the chance to buy this little mini greenhouse to see what it can do.  Hopefully it will be good not only for sprouting seeds, but to grow some things next winter.  Fresh winter tomatoes grown in a big pot sounds good.

There is something exciting about seeing the little sprouts popping their heads up to say hello.  We still have a few more things to plant (ok, more than a few cuz I tend to be a planting nut once I get started), but this is a pretty good start, considering we haven’t grown anything for several years. (Those evil grasshoppers just kept plotting against us and thwarted previous gardening efforts at this house.)  But, now that we have chickens that LOVE to eat grasshoppers, we figured it was time to  get back on the garden wagon.

Look but don’t taste the plants grasshoppers!  (Although I hope our chickens will taste a LOT of you hoppers!)  Cheers for Spring Sprouts!