Mid-Atlantic Gardening: Still hangingPart 8 , 1 by billyporter

billyporter wrote:
Ruby, so sad :o( We're pretty sure a cat got the squirrel. We miss him :o(

Awwww, that's how we all started with gardens, I think. The Grandparents, then the Parents.

I remember Dad with a dibble, making a hole, and me dropping in the little tomato plant. Pour in the water, wait till it's gone and fill it in.

I learned to clip the two bottom leaves to bury it deeper. I see now, the deeper it is, the closer it is to the ground water :o)

I'm starting to get radishes too! I haven't had a sandwich yet, but butter and thick slices of radish....DELICIOUS!!!

I too have realized that when the body is sick, let it rest.

Jan, how sad? If I had a pool to sit in, I'd let someone else eat my peas, LOL!!

Yesterday was a busy one.

We took the family out to eat. (It was Dad's birthday May 29th and we treated the family at Pizza Ranch.) Came home and had coffee. My neighbor brought me a cute snail ornament for watering all week. I potted up flowers for her that she said she liked. A guy I've shared flowers with stopped to look at all mine and later brought back two of his iris. I weeded, but quit early to clean up for getting groceries today :o)

Today we have a lot of rain moving in from the southwest. I was happy with the way the weather was, but it will water all my tomatoes, peppers and eggplant I just set out. I also had to replant some of the spinach, but this packet is old too. The turnips didn't come up at all, so I replanted them. The seed is so tiny. I think it might have gotten buried.

My new iris :o)