Hard to Beet This Catch of the Day and Carl's Birthday
The beets all have to come out before the weather beats them up. This morning I watched the sun come up while I was pulling these. What a great way to start a day. Snow peas are just now forming - the spring has been a little late for them. It's unusual for the snow peas to be in flower when the blackberries are already forming on the vines. What a berry crop this year! Last year because of the drought there we so few that we had none to give away. This year will be very different - assuming the storm on the horizon does no damage. The Muskogee Garden Club's Centennial Garden Tour is coming up June 9 and 10 so yesterday I planted a few hundred little pots of things for the plant sale. If they all come up and survive, there will be purple majesty millet, amaranth, rose campion , sunflowers, summer squash, loofah sponge vines, and a few other odds and ends. So you want a big dramatic planting pot but don't want it to weigh a ton? Check this out. The orange disk inside the ta...