Gardening is a hobby. It should be enjoyable. And Mother Nature has her own ideas about what kind of weather she sends our way.

Then there are the seeds. I had two winter sown daylilies germinate on me a week or two ago. The challenges never end. And every year I think I'll do it better next year. LOL

I think the same thing, every year. It will happen, I hope.

I'm fortunate that I have a husband who hates the look of my jugs sitting around, so he's constantly saying "Why don't you spend some time in the garden and get more of those jugs planted? How many do you have left? How long will that take?" I almost hesitate to plant any each year, but I just can't resist playing in the dirt in the winter when I'm stir crazy.

Martha

This fall only a few of my seedlings are still in their ws containers. Most seedlings have been planted or potted. Those tiny seedlings will go into a holding bed, container and all, until next spring when they will get some more growth before being planted.

Every year I have a few NOID seedlings which get potted up or placed in a holding bed until they can be identified. Sometimes they are weeds which blew into the ws containers or came in the container mix. Usually they are plants I want to keep.

Hopefully you will have better gardening conditions next year. Hurrah for new gardening tools.

Martha, invent your husband to help you. He might find that he enjoys it too.
Sadly, I haven't made much process since I wrote that. The rose beds are almost done and if I get one the other 4 beds in the backyard started before its starts freezing then I would call it good. The new gardening tools took awhile to get us too but my hands are so much happier

Mori,
I've invited him to help more times than I care to count. And my teenagers, too. No luck. Once in a while he'll bring a book, a chair, and a drink into the garden and sit near me while I garden, but he only participates in the "manly" jobs like mowing or leaf-blowing. He has something against getting his hands dirty, and that's my favorite part.

Martha

LOL, better not tell the guys who landscaping. I guess you could call it, the manly form of gardening.