It's snowing as I sit here, but my friends who garden have been reminding me that it's not too early to start planning for spring planting. 
Pretty soon my neighbor will be outside adding a few extra feet to his garden enclosure. It gets a little bigger each year. I don't mind, because the cucumber vines grow through the fence that separates our yards, and he tells me that any cucumbers on my side of the fence are mine to pick! He also shares tomatoes, peppers, and monster zucchini with my family.
We have some flower beds here, but haven't planted a garden. When we first moved in, my great-aunts visited us and brought a huge pot of mums. I planted them in the front yard and watered them for three days. Then I came home one afternoon to find the neighborhood rabbits eating the mums for lunch. By the end of the week they were eaten down to the ground.
I did have better luck with the lilac my sister gave us. It didn't bloom for a year or two, but now it has doubled in height and has even started producing baby lilacs. Every spring it produces plenty of fragrant flowers, which remind me of my grandmother. She lived in a 100-year-old house that had 100-year-old lilacs lining the borders of her yard. The lilacs grew so high that the blooms were level with the second-floor windows.
I'm thinking this year that I might try planting a little kitchen garden. Just a small patch with some basil, parsley, oregano, and other cooking herbs. If the rabbits don't get to them first, we might be able to have a pizza with garden-fresh seasoning.
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