Impressive! The only place we have snow here in Minnesota is where it’s still melting off from the cross country and downhill ski areas

Oh, I am so looking up perennial sunflowers!! I am planing a full line of zinnias in front and sunflowers behind facing the roadway to the south. I love the colors and the idea that any visitors can bring a bouquet home after a visit. even better if the Sunflowers are perennial.

@Jim Flach Whoa! It looks like a sunflower forest!! so cool!!

Welcome Everyone!! @Jim Flach , and all of us Oasis Builders, there is so much wisdom and experience to help make things easier, more productive and fun! What's your new dreams for growing this season?

I have the main garden and then the orchard beginnings, currently one apple tree (the other baby tree couldn't take last summer's heat wave, even with sufficient water), and 6 baby blueberry bushes, or rather stalks... The soil was all native woods till 1948, and has been an organic farmyard, barnyard pasture, and most recently fallow for 40 years before we started the garden 2 years ago. It is Black dirt. The garden and enture farmyard can get quite wet with lots of rain, and I need to build up a few beds for the plants that don't like that much moisture. Notably, the carrots and onions did not like it last year.

@Jim Flach I can also add a second garden area, as needed. And possible expand the width of what’s there. More on the north side.

@Jim Flach The northern side of the garden, 14 x40 is perrenial herbs, thyme, sage, self heal, chamomile (reseeds itself), Perilla (reseeds itself), Garlic- Fall planted, and Egyptian or walkig onion- perenial, as ell as Chrysanthemum - for tea, Black Medic, Plantain and dendelion all volunteer and ar used medicinally and for living mulch. I had planted radishes, broccali rabe, and carrots there, though that is the area with more rocks. the squash are is at the western most edge, 2 feet on either side and 4 feet under the arch. It is hardened path in the middle of the arch, and prickly lettuce comes up nicely in there.