Thank you Jeannie, you have really given me lots of great ideas for planting here---I am planning where to put things right now-we can't really plant until around Mothers Day here because we can get hard frosts right into early June. I am really looking forward to gardening. When we lived In Texas I had gardens three seasons of the year and a huge vegetable garden but had a husband then to haul and shovel and we used black plastic to keep out weeds also had auto watering system-so this will be a different kind of garden for me! Love your wonderful ideas for getting started! Thanks a lot! Helen