RE: Planting times--question from a new gardener

Boy can I relate to your frustrations!  The best advice I have is, if at all
possible, try to read mostly from LOCAL writers at first, as you're
learning.  I was fortunate enough to have Ann Lovejoy give me my "start"
into garden books and advice.  She is nationally (internationally?) known
but gardens just 2-3 hours aways from me in a nearly identical climate.

Mostly, (and this is from one "information person" to another, which I
assume you are since you've been reading as much as possible) is you just
have to adopt the attitude that you will learn as you go, you will make many
mistakes, but that's okay, its how you learn.  Even if you didn't make
mistakes and lose plants, etc., you will probably change your mind and
preferences often enough to cause change in the garden anyway!

This is comnig on the backside of 9 years of gardening.

Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is just a little old fashioned garden where the 
flowers come together to praise the Lord and teach all 
who look upon them to do likewise.
Celia Thaxter

I AM in shape.  ROUND is a shape!


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Leotah@aol.com [L*@aol.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 7:27 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Planting times--question from a new gardener
> 
> 
> I'm a new gardener, and have spent the last 6 months reading 
> as much as
> possible about gardening.  Unfortunately, many of the books 
> contradict one
> another, as do mail order nurseries, and anyone else giving 
> advice.  My
> question is when it is appropriate to plant in the spring.  
> We garden in
> southwestern Massachusetts, zone 5.  
> 
> When can perennials go into the ground?  Hardy annuals?  
> Dahlias, cannas,
> calla lilies?  Day lilies?  
> 
> Some say April.  Others mid-May.  Others Memorial Day.  
> That's a wide spread
> for a relatively short growing season, and I want to be able 
> to get as much as
> I can from my first full year of gardening.
> 
> I'll appreciate any and all suggestions.  Oh, and by the way, 
> some months ago
> someone on this list recommended DripWorks in northern Calif 
> as an excellent
> source for drip irrigation.  I am working them now, and want 
> to thank whoever
> it is that suggested them for they are great.  So thanks to someone.
> 
> Laury Epstein
> southwestern Massachusetts, zone 5
> 
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