[canadiyank]

Morning glories are pretty but SUCH a pest in our area. We have a related weed called bindweed that completely infested my garden at my last house. When I see it here I blast it with Round-up b/c I am so worried about it taking over again. Normally I am very organic but bindweed gets no mercy from me!

I have raised beds, too, and a new area along our retaining wall that I want to do something with. I might be able to harvest a few spears from our asparagus bed I planted last spring, too.

I got a catalogue from The Cook's Garden the other day and have been drooling over several things. I think I'm going to get the purple podded peas, for sure, just for something fun. I like growing the unusual colours.

I bought some elderberry plants last year but didn't get the in the ground, unfortunately (long story, had a minor emergency last fall that interfered with a lot of my gardening goals b/c our money and mental resources were directed elsewhere) but I did get them potted up, so hopefully they'll make it through the winter and I can plant them in the spring.

I had great luck with my hoophouse last year (have a terrible problem with leafminers that affects my chard, beets, etc.) so I'm looking forward to using that again, but need to come up with a better idea for being able to get in/out of it. It was just bent poles with some light fabric on top but since you have to secure it all the way around (we get heavy winds here at times) it makes it hard to actually get in/out. So I want to find some sort of solution for that.

I need a recommendation for a variety of pole beans. The kind I have been using (would have to look up what it was) were horrid and I'm about to give up. I've had way better luck with bush beans.