Saturday I had my big “dirt day” of the year. My hands were black and my fingernails were packed with soil. I know others enjoy that process, but for me it’s just something I have to force myself through.

Fortunately, it takes less than 2 hours to plant the 5 containers I have worked myself up to over the years. (I started by buying 2 geranium plants, already potted, for each side of my front stairs. That was about 10 years and one house ago.) I actually also plan to plant some food: lettuce seeds and dill seeds, parsley if I can find some, and maybe one bush tomato in a container. However, that will wait for one more, less messy day.

This year I have two pots at our most-used entrance at the side/back of the house, with geraniums, petunias, a few foliage plants and a cream pansy or something (that one is new to me). I have two pots at the front of the house, with three colors of impatiens, some purple flowers I still can’t remember the name of, a big spiky plant and a two-color vine.

Then my newest addition to the yard (started last year) is a larger pot at the other front corner of the house, with a geranium and petunias, a spike plant and a vine. We’ll see how that goes, it’s in an area that gets different amounts of sun during different parts of the year, but I’ve found that geraniums forgive me when things are imperfect.

The picture here is a pot I planted (back entrance) last year. I’ll show you this year’s pots when they recover from the shock of repotting.

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