It's Time For Thinking Of Gardening Plans

I love plants and flowers and these last few days of warm weather have got the wasps flying about the house and have me thinking about what plants I wish to plant this year. I am an accidental gardener. I tend to not be very organized and often forget what I have planted where.

For instance, I don't plant a lot of vegetables, but I like to plant peppers and tomatoes as those are two of the vegetables we eat a lot of in our home. So I will plant them, stick the little plastic plant label into the ground and hope that it will last. But it doesn't. The weather comes, the cats come, the piece of plastic gets buried under weeds or broken and by the time the plants start to flower, I can't remember which peppers are supposed to be red and which are supposed to be yellow. I can't remember which are supposed to be the tiny tomatoes, which are supposed to be the best tomatoes for canning or which are supposed to be the best tomatoes for a kitchen sink tomato sandwich.

This irks me! If I was a more serious gardener or had a better memory, perhaps I would need plant stakes to help me figure out which vegetable was which, but since my brain isn't wired that way and I prefer to concentrate on eating the veggies, I must find some better plant labels for my garden.