What a difference a month makes! Now instead of my broken stock tanks filled with dirt, I have onions, tomatoes, red and green bell peppers, snow peas, cabbage, basil, oregano, rosemary and lemon thyme growing like crazy. I’m working on another raised bed I’ll write about later. It was a “free” one that didn’t turn out so free. Has the wet spring helped in your gardens?
Last Sunday night the ladies of our church met in the heat in our church garden to enjoy fellowship. We had a lady who brought her butterfly presentation and I was invited to share about bees. We enjoyed yummy desserts made from our garden produce also. These are some of the facts I shared with the women and girls: A queen lays up to 1,500 eggs a day for two to three years. She only leaves the hive once on…
A few weeks ago I talked about growing sweet potatoes. They’re still sitting in the dirt, doing nothing. https://sallyjadlow.com/growing-sweet-potatoes/ I planted some white potatoes which had sprouted eyes at the same time. These little plants are going crazy. I had to put them in bigger containers. Potatoes aren’t supposed to be planted until St. Patrick’s Day in a couple of weeks. Hope these babies like the outdoor soil when I place them in my plot at Colonial Presbyterian’s God’s Garden. What…
A few weeks ago I shared my little garden on the dining room table here. Now those little seeds are all grown up! There are more items in my patio garden, but I didn’t want to drag them all to one place. Hopefully we’ll have some yummy produce soon. Have you all planted this year? How is it going? It was really wet for a while–then extremely hot. Kinda hard on plants, for sure. My books are available at https://www.amazon.com/-/e/B007F5H0H4