sunflowers

You Can’t Keep A Good Garden Down

Despite my best efforts to ignore it, the garden just will not go away! I haven’t hoed or sown or watered in months (just don’t ask), yet still hot peppers, green & yellow bell peppers, chinese eggplant, sunflowers and even tomatoes are still popping up. Amazing.
I also have bottle gourds and one, just … Continue reading »

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The frozen georgian tundra

Now I know, I know, it’s cold everywhere, even in the frigid south, but hey, it’s my blog, get you’re own!
These are the times when being 40 minutes north of the Florida line and 7 hours above south Florida really count. It’s freakin’ freezing (literally, below) here! Which is bizarre considering last week, we had … Continue reading »

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It’s not just the economy seeing a downturn

Our gardens and our pecan trees seem to be following in the footsteps of our economy.  Not much there.
Summer gardens  did really well.  Just about everything grew well and bore fruit.  My pepper and eggplants are still going strong.  Yet we had meager returns on seeds planted this fall.  Out of 15+ seeds planted for … Continue reading »

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My pet rock

John and I are always trying to find that simple “thing” that is easy to make and market, and everyone wants. Hopefully, it would be more useful than a pet rock, but it follows those same rules that made everyone buy a rock in a box…you know you had one. I did!
While preparing … Continue reading »

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Before and After

My beautiful plot of sunflowers is now gone. Their sunny upright faces are now heavy hanging heads of sunflower seeds. Mmmm…sunflower seeds.

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