New year, new way of recording my gardening activities- not to mention new year, new garden! Historically, I've always been interested in gardening. Not so much at my parent's house but my Aunt Pat is possibly one of the most hardcore gardener I've ever known...to this day, in fact. As a youngster, I followed her instruction and helped her during the Illinois summers, planting everything from vegetables to flowers to actual trees and eventually harvesting our homegrown produce in the fall. I've spent countless hours wandering through the acres of prairie that she landscaped into her property on the Illinois-Wisconsin state line. Years later, I migrated down south to Louisiana and in 2010, I found myself moved out of the college student apartment and into a house with my long time boyfriend. This wasn't just any house, it was a house with a HUGE yard and the remnants of his MawMaw Opal's gardening endeavors. I dabbled in planting some ornamentals and few veg...