Thanks everyone. I'm sure we could raise chickens, I've never done it before, don't know if we will. Might try the bee thing, though. Do you raise chickens, Karen? I ABSOLUTELY will be growing roses! They're really hard to keep alive here in CO, I'm so looking forward to an amazing smelling rose garden! I'm not sure about the soil, the only place we've dug is near the lake and it was really sandy as you'd expect. Added quite a few bags of compost to raise the plants up a bit and get something organic in there to keep them growing....was told the area is notorious for clay. Didn't look like a lot of clay in what little of the disrupted soil I saw but I guess I'll find out in March!
It's snowing and cold today here in Colorado as well. Another 10 weeks or so before we start seeing signs of peony life here! We'll be in Alabama on 9 March, bet everything will be up and budded!
