Vegetables Gardening - Growing Organic Vegetables

i noticed u did a lot of work,,yhat s good,,but i didn t see too many things u olanted ,,that u can eat. down here in Mississippi,,i like to plant more things to eat than flowers and herbs. like  purple hull peas, butterbeans, okra, we call it okree--some folks call it okraaa--lol--tomatos- well  good luck on all yo flowers--and may the good Lord take a liking to ya
  JOHN   B    

--- On Fri, 6/24/11, binaatthelake <schultzjanet@ymail.com> wrote:

From: binaatthelake <schultzjanet@ymail.com>
Subject: [Organic_Gardening] it's in finally it's all in....
To: Organic_Gardening@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, June 24, 2011, 5:27 PM

 

Well between frosts and snow the first week of June...then a downpour pretty much every day except two and those I worked...but it is done. I had to take holidays to do it and I had to time it between thunderstorms but I did it. It is in. I am not doing another blessed thing...I ache everywhere. It is planted, weeded, and mulched, every pot is filled, the wonderful two inch corsican mints and wooly thyme that I got for 79 cents each are planted among the stepping stones by the rain barrels, the old gate is now in my garden to act as a potting bench, the potatoes in barrels are pretty much topped up, the tomatoes are staked.....it's finally in.

Hmmmmm.....now what, what to do next now that the vegie gardens are all planted and ready to go, I still have three days of holidays left...hmmmmm

Oh yeah on tomorrow's list...
weed out the berry hedge, transplant the escapees back into the hedge, clean out the pond, check the pump and get that going. Then I can weed under the deck to the front yard and start weeding all of those beds. I think I will weed them out once and then I will mulch the dickens out of those. Then I have the bake oven to finish, the garage to clean out, an arbor to build...maybe with that last six pack of moonflowers...I have a spot for a tree I think a pear, and I am watching for blueberry bushes to go on sale, I have some lovely composted leaf mold and composted spruce needles to work into that bed, ......
and if I get that all done....there are still hostas that need to be moved, and about five more beds that I would eventually like to build, and a hoop house, and a better potting shed, and I would love to talk to the county about collecting some wild edibles and medicinals to put into the beds, then there is the expansion of the patio, the pruning, and more weeding, and more weeding....

a gardener's work is never done....we just dream bigger.
Cheers
from a very stiff and satisfied
Bina

The summer is here, and like all true northern gardener I smell of soil, Off and liniment...and look slightly crazed.

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