Why the weird dates? Click here to find out! Other challenges I participate in: Homeschool Diary Menu Plan Monday Welcome… kinda… to Garden Season 5771 (aka 2011). I’m supposed to include a current picture. Here you go!!! Dead coleus from last year. The garden has been kind of a “no-grow zone” so far, with late, cold winter weather moving in just as spring officially began. I garden in a tiny urban front and backyard in Toronto, which is officially Zone 5, but today, more like Zone 3. Blah. I have two composters , three square foot beds , about four or five sub-irrigated (aka self-watering) planters, a bunch of happy perennials which are generally far outnumbered by the unhappy veggies in my low-sun backyard. We have some strawberries, raspberries and hopefully, this year, blackberries . I have a special fondness for hanging plants , though I don’t have nearly enough of them, nor take good enough care of the ones I do have. In terms of homeschooling, I