The garden this year is going to be huge; we’ve done some clearing and are looking forward to a good gardening year. I know it will be a lot of hard work, but I’m looking forward to it. I hope we don’t have a drought as we typically do. We are on well water, and [...]
Good Friday was April 2 this year, and typically in the south you get your garden in by then. I don’t worry about Good Friday being a “deadline.” I study the weather, expected rain, and current temperatures. We plant differently each year. This year, we chose to start planting the Monday after Easter, which was [...]
Late June. Harvesting plenty of zipper peas, okra, cucumbers, yellow squash, zucchini, peppers, tomatoes, eggplant. We’ve got Sweet 100 tomato plants almost reaching up to the second story and summer is far from over. Lots of melon blooms on the cantaloupe vines. We were fortunate with lots of rain up until now. Every day is [...]
