Last quarter's sentence: "Plants that I have never grown before
but I want to try this year are....."

Marsha's Ending: "Vines...There are so many flowering vines that hummingbirds love, my deck will be covered with vines this year... Can't wait for spring!!"

Lucinda's Ending: "Sugar snap peas. My mouth waters up just thinking about eating them, even if I get the chills thinking about planting them."

You can win too, just enter below!

How it works is simple:

1. Finish this quarter's sentence in the form below
   
   
2. Be humorous and whimsical if you like, but succinct
   
   
3. Winners are posted here and chosen every 3 months
   (First of April, July, October, January)
   
   
4. Current submissions are posted below the form on this page

• "Creating a rain garden. Now I can conserve water and grow beautiful bleeding hearts, lily of the valley, and hostas that are thriving in my new garden."

  Kathy Romero

  
  
• "Swan neck gourds! They were HUGE! I just planted them on a heavy arbor and ingored them. Half way through the summer I was ruffling through the leaves to see if I had anything and the first one I found was so big (2 feet (.6 m) long)it actually scared me and I jumped back a little. What fun!"

  Bethany Buisker

  
  
• "Seeing my lawn awash with tiny frogs the 1st year of my new pond."

  Sharon

  
  
• "Planting a fig bush in the yard of my new home and having it produce delicious figs for preserves the very first time having a fig tree. Remarkable!"

  Brenda Barnette

  
  
• "For the first time in my life I grew broccoli, cabbages, and such a success with broad beans. I still have the joy of harvesting my beans. I can't wait."

  Midge Snell

  
  
• "Convincing my son-in-law to let me decorate his pub with hanging baskets."

  John Coupland

  
  
• "Experiment! I tried many different things I thought were crazy, but to much suprise I suprised myself!!!"

  Rebecca Barker

  
  
• "Sweet corn which I planted from seed directly into the garden and added mushroom compost, they were the sweetest juciest corn I have ever tasted and we got some mushrooms (as a bonus) from the compost which were delicious as well."

  Helen McLaughlin

  
  
• "Keeping my late grandmother's plants alive when I'm very new to gardening."

  Brandi Wiese

  
  
• "Getting my whole family (7 of us), including my disabled son, to help in our vegetable garden which is now in its second year. Growing everything from salad, veg and fruit. Here we go!"

  Tracey Powell

  
  
• "My home grown vegetable patch, can't wait to get my hands dirty just love it."

  Lynda Chambers

  
  
• "My growing lettuce from seeds! I've never been able to grow anything from seeds, but, right now I have lettuce! Lots of green beautiful salad just waiting for some oil and vinegar!"

  Barbara

  
  
• "The year we resurrected an overgrown raised bed at the house we'd just moved into, and our new neighbors handed us a rhubarb over the fence, we planted it first and felt welcomed to the neighborhood!"

  Joan

  
  
• "Chard in April, broccoli in May, onions in June, tomatoes in July, eggplant in August, okra in September, squash in October and a little of all of them on my dinner table tonight!"

  Lori Miller

  
  
• "Being told by two elderly neighbors that they make a habit of passing my little apartment garden in their daily walks to see all the flowers."

  Lois Westerfield

  
  
• "Planting and watching my tomato plants produce tomatoes after almost losing them to bugs and frost, how excited I was!"

  Donna S Rindskopf

  
  
• "Moving from a 'water garden' in a wastebasket to a 3 x 4 foot (1 x 1.2 m) in-ground pond with a waterfall and lots of new and interesting water plants."

  Valerie Stabenow

  
  
• "A rose bush. Did I say a rose bush? I meant 15 rose bushes. They are such an addiction. It's a big deal to me because I have been gardening for less than two years and every time I am in the "Garden" I have my little bag with all of my gardening books!"

  Olga Gonzalez-Ramos

  
  
• "Getting a pumkin actually grown from the seed for 20 plus years I excited my children, neices, nephews,and currently my grandchildren by making a pumpkin garden that the kids all must plant themselves. Come late September just before Halloween each and every child has had the grandest luck and ellated with joy discovering their huge pumpkin in their garden. Of course the garden is always in my own yard and miracle growths that bring smiles each and every year."

  Donna Wells

  
  
• "My fresh veggie garden on our deck, in pots. And I already started planting again for this year."

  Regina M Dziak

  
  
• "Understanding that there is a balace between the perfect runway for my husband's dog, and my need for delicate flowers; I call them 'rocks!' "

  Stephanie Sheldon

  
  
• "Deciding to garden."

  Kaleesha Williams

  
  
• "The seeds I planted a week ago, they are already blooming. Now, that's a quick bloom time. I wish the rest of my garden would grow that quick. It would be like having a pop up garden, now, we wait for our birds and butterflies to pop up!"

  Kathie Hertling

  
  
• "Deciding to grow Dandelions."

  Noe Salinas

  
  
• "My husband! He's gone from grass everywhere to making raised beds, digging out soil, mixing it with peat and compost for better soil, claiming everything is his plants and how great it looks. Like a wisteria it takes several years to bloom."

  Carol Springall

  
  
• "When I planted 2 different colored clematis, together, to climb up onto my 5 foot (1.5 m) 'circular' climber, which is placed in the middle of my garden. It was so perfect, the first clematis was a white colored flower and the second one was a purple colored flower. When they started to grow, they both intertwined with each other as they climbed up the climber. When they bloomed, as you can imagine, I had the most beautiful arrangement of clematis."

  Pam Hart

  
  
• "My purple sprouting broccoli - they are so tasty and also look so majestic and beautiful amongst my flower beds."

  Sarah Bedaton

  
  
• "Planting green onions, chives, parsley and tomatoes in a container on my deck. I am 80 years old and cannot garden big anymore so this was a thrill to grow these wonderful things."

  Corrine

  
  
• "The garden I grew in the old feedlot! Beautiful, delicious, huge, plentiful veggies and fruits all season long!"

  Sunny Gallant

  
  
• "Getting anything to grow at all. Despite an early spring freeze, followed by drought my garden (the first in a decade) kept me in fresh vegetables through fall."

  T.M.

  
  
• "Foxglove. I planted seeds and had an array of beautiful spikes. They kept reseeding themselves biennially, and many of my friends grew theirs from my seeds. I've moved, and now I need to get some seeds back!"

  Carol Fox

  
  
• "Some cucumbers that grew reckless and became huge one season."

  Chris Arunagiri

  
  
• "Teaching my nephew to love & appreciate it as much as I do."

  Deb Larison

  
  
• "Growing "black-eyed susans" through the ivy on the garage wall last year. It looked so good for so long that this year I am going to plant twice as many. I have already started them off indoors."

  May Fenn

  
  
• "Tomatoes!!! There are all different types of tomatoes... I love everyone of them... The only trick is finding the one that best suits you."

  Alicia

  
  
• "Was my rose garden - it took a lot of work but the rewards were so wonderful - the house had fresh roses in every room - I loved it!"

  Gayle Hogue

  
  
• "My wall flowers that were the last plants still standing in February and are still standing and blooming today!"

  Angela Hedgepeth

  
  
• "Planting primroses, crocus, grape hycinths around my front dogwood tree and have so much beautiful bright color early every sping when the you want winter to be gone."

  Patty Micone

  
  
• "A beautiful, big sunflower that came up volunteer. It was so much fun to watch it grow to its 4 ft. (1.2 m) height with many blossoms."

  Marilyn Wakeland

  
  
• "Designing my mom's yard into three separate garden areas so that in her later years she can still enjoy going out to work in the garden."

  Jackie

  
  
• "The weeds that sprang up while we were on vacation....we called it 'the great Ft. Madison Weed experiment'."

  Mary L. Morgan

  
  
• "My husband, he has discover his inner gardener."

  Carol Ley

  
  
• "I once grew an entire hedge of Hollywood Juniper, it was the coolest thing you ever saw!"

  Robert Stimms

  
  
• "The joy of preparing the garden, attending to it, and being rewarded with the fruits and vegetables."

  Danny Points

  
  
• "When I finally got my husband to stop weedeating new plantings! Boy, was I disappointed when I woke up..."

  Cordelia Stipe

  
  
• "Changing my lawn care to totally organic practices. I thought I would kill it for sure, but after a short transition period, it looks better than ever - what a relief!"

  Cheryl Adams

  
  
• "I successfully grew a luffa gourd and turned it into a sponge for the shower! Pretty neat since most people think luffa sponges come from the ocean, but you can grow them in your garden - I proved it!"

  Maria Vargas

  
  
• "The time I successfully grew and transplanted a pine tree not native to the area. The seed that started it must have been brought into the yard by a bird. The tree is now 15 feet (4.5 m) tall!"

  Jamie Douglass