Late July Garden
Tennessee Cushaw Sweet Potato Squash is called a winter squash since they are harvested in the fall and keep well over the winter. A few seeds came to me from Tulsa World garden writer Russell Studebaker through his friend Felder Rushing. Russell wanted the heirloom preserved so I grew the plants and distributed them to a few gardeners. This flower is a male - no fruit attached at the base of the flower - and it had 6 bees in it at the same time. That pollen must be divine food. The book, Renewing America's Food Traditions, from Chelsea Green Publishers, has a bit of information about it. Click here to read. I'm becoming a Salvia collector of sorts. A former garden writer for the Muskogee Phoenix, Ronn Smith, gave me my first plants and seeds of Lady In Red. Then I started looking for perennial Salvias . Betsy Clebsch's book on Salvias is a great resource. Another friend, Sharon Owen introduced me to her favorite salvia resources and we started ordering plants toge...