A special thanks goes out to Angela, who gave me 11 cat litter buckets yesterday for my swc workshop next spring! I hope to collect 40-50 more before April, as I'm sure many citizens will be interested. Freecycle is such a cool thing....Yay!
Now, for the remaining sweet potato harvest...
Some current gardening news...
With only 12.5 lbs. to go before reaching the 400 lb. harvest total for the year, I really don't think i'll make it....sigh. The only things left in the garden are 3 honeydew melons (2 are very small), a small watermelon, cucumbers, okra, and lettuce. Ending up with 399 lbs. will make me scream, but it would be funny, I guess.
My onion sets that were planted a couple of weeks ago have already broke their dormancy, and should reach maturity around March/April. Speaking of onions...they have got to be the easiest thing a person can grow. I mean, critters won't eat them, they are hardy well below zero, no special care is needed, and you don't have to worry about bugs.
**GWAR concert review**
The show was awesome, and The Masquerade is a cool place to see one! I won't go into details of what the band did during the show, but will only say that just when I thought they couldn't be more hardcore with their on-stage antics, I was pleasantly surprised again. Ha! It rocked!!! My son Chance will never be the same. Heehee...
Tomorrow will be spent helping with the community landscaping project at the Franklin County Detention Center again, which is slowly starting to come together. Talk about alot of work!
Take care, and happy gardening!
EG
14 comments:
I think Jude wants to play ball with your sweet potatoes. You had a nice harvest. I'm rooting for you to make your 400lbs. You never know. Maybe it will add up.
EG, you'll hit the mark yet. Those onions were planted this year, so their harvest can go in this year's total.
Those potatoes were fantastic looking! Now, If I can only get the man to agree to me putting those containers in the front yar, I'll be set for life.
Great sweet potato harvest. I especially like the "help" you had from Jude :) I am betting you'll reach 400 lbs.
Glad the concert was awesome and Chance had a great time with his dad.
399 pounds might be an interesting goal . . .
One year I had onion maggots. Not a whole lot of fun, those.
Lucky you with the sweets. I just bought another bag : (
Oh, and Jude totally steals the show. . .
EG,
Thanks for the video. I'm going to try my hand at sweet potatoes next year for sure!
Oh, boy... You don't look like a redneck AT ALL with that Miller shirt! ROFL!
Nice SP harvest (and scale too)! Jude looked jealous of you digging in the dirt. Maybe you can train her to dig (and not eat) your SP's--like pigs with truffles teehee.
Daphne - I think you're right about Jude. She always wants to help. I just don't know about 400...
ribbit - Maybe you can talk the man into it. I certainly hope so.
rachel - Ah yes....my little helper. She's not much help, but is certainly entertaining.
stefaneener - onion maggots? Gosh, I hope those don't show up around here. Jude definitely steals the show everytime!
liisa - I wish you great success with your future sp planting.
Momma_S - Yeah, I guess that shirt is quite fitting for me. Ha! Oh lord...I don't want Jude digging anywhere around the garden. She's a good digger!
Great to see your sweet potatoes are doing well, I grew them a couple of years ago, but i don't think I have the climate to do them really well.
I'm green with envy. My container had a whopping 7 ounces of sweet potatoes. Boo-hoo.
If you have to get a little creative to get to 400 pounds, remember that dandilion greens are edible.
Matron - they really do well in my climate, but bugs are a real problem for them.
Cheryl - thanks. I'm sorry yours didn't fare well. It may be the difference in climate...
Ha, Jude's funny. That is a very respectable sweet potato harvest. They grow some pretty big clumps of them too. I just heading to my e-mail to drop you a line about my HVAC question.
Watching clumps of sp's being pulled out of those containers made me absolutely giddy, but I let out a huge belly laugh when you talked about dirty hands leading to itchy noses. It never fails! It's always the second after I've decided to plunge my hands into the dirt, gloveless, that I have the greatest need to touch all over my face.
Wow, I would say that was a good harvest. You got big bunches from each side of your swcs, what more could you want, except maybe more swc scraps, hehe.
We just had sweet potato fries with dinner last night. Very tasty! Gonna have to tell us how you will be preparing them.
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