I Have a Christmas Story For the last 8 or 9 years, our tree has been a Norfolk pine in a pot on my pool deck. Another year’s growth made it too big to carry inside, so I was stalling with decorating, until last Saturday. I attended a supper that had a white elephant swap […]
Planting in October
October 4th, 2014 2 Comments
Herbs First Today we prepared the garden boxes for the 2014 fall planting season. First on the list was the herb box. It’s been almost two years since the herb box was planted. Most of the herbs were way overgrown. They had spread out everywhere and many had become very woody. The herbs needed to be […]
Tags: above ground garden · Okra · parsley · Raised Garden · soil solarization · Tomatoes · Vegetables
Okra Update
September 27th, 2014 No Comments
Still Blooming Back in August when the other garden box was covered to solarize it for the remainder of the summer, the okra was still coming up strong. Since we don’t plant again until October, we decided to leave the okra until it quit producing. Not only is the okra still producing, but it keeps on blooming! I know […]
Tags: above ground garden · Okra · Okra Festival · Raised Garden · soil solarization
