There really isn’t much about glow in this post unless you count the sun and smile on my face when I see my garden. I’ll try to do better later in the week.
I promised to keep you posted on my fall garden so these photos are from the third week of it.
On the scale of life I believe gardening is high on the list. True it is hard work and sometimes in vain. Sometimes I toil and my efforts just don’t pay off. Today was a prefect example. Over the summer I planted sweet potatoes, my first try at it. This morning I dug the potatoes and found only a handful of small ones. I guess I got over-anxious and pulled them up too soon. But that’s okay because I needed the space they were taking up in my raised bed. In their place I planted beets, radishes and carrots. Now we have to see how they will grow. I’ve never had much luck with beets. I know for some places it is too late in the season to plant these vegetables but I don’t think so in Central Florida. Our seasons are much different from most places. And it was definitely too hot for them in the summer. I just ask God to please bless them so I’ll have enough to share.
Collards,onions and banana peppers.
Mustard, broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and tomatoes.
Yellow squash and garlic
Maybe from these pictures you can tell how everything is growing. Gardening is a slow process. The peppers are also doing fine. I was able to pick a few of the hot ones this morning and make pickled peppers. Now I’ll just have to find someone to eat them since I don’t like spicy food. But I do like growing the peppers.
Thank you for stopping by and please come back soon. We should have collards and mustard ready for Thanksgiving. Ahhhh Thanksgiving in the south. Y’all come, you hear.
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The joy of getting my fall garden in the ground is something that only fellow gardeners will understand. You start with a blank slate, so to speak, but you have a picture in your mind so you start adding plants.
You just can’t keep a good woman down. And as long as it can hold potting soil it will serve my purpose. They, along with an old laundry basket, are the new home for my grandson’s sweet peppers.
So what does grasshoppers and walks have to do with a row of ants? Nothing really, I guess, except they are God’s creatures. But as I’m walking I always notice these cars on one street I have to cross. They are lined up like a row of ants waiting to get on the main highway and get to work or whatever. People are so busy. I once was a member of that rat race before I retired. And I guess they don’t have a single thing to do with Shiny unless you can claim their headlights. But it is interesting to see. Just a few of my Monday thoughts.
at night. So this year it is loaded with flowers and I just had to sneak out that at 4:30 this morning before I went for my morning walk and grab a peek. I was so excited when I saw this wonderful flower. Yes, of course I had to pick one of the blooms and take snapshots to share with y’all.
of my flowers are paying the price but I’ve planted enough to share with them and still have plenty for myself. Some of the caterpillars love my Dutchman’s Pipe vine and I have to keep a sharp eye out so they don’t eat enough to kill it. And I do have Monarch but I haven’t been able to snap a photo of them yet but I will keep trying.
I think collards are probably a green vegetable that is usually eaten in the south United States and even then some have never developed a taste for them. If you’ve eaten kale, well that is a cousin to collards and has a similar taste. Yes it is a strong flavor and I suppose it gets some getting used to. Frankly I love them and so does my oldest son. The rest of my family will “kindly pass thank you very much.” My seven-year old grandson surprises me how healthy he eats but he also does not like my collards. Anyway, they are a must plant in my fall garden along with mustard greens. Now my husband can absolutely eat a lot of mustard greens.
As you know gardening is one of my many hobbies and I truly enjoy it. It is a wonderful feeling to plant a seed or small plant then watch it grow and produce. If you are stressed gardening will help you relax and forget all the problems. Try it.
