I couldn't have been more shocked if I'd found gold.
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Mary's grew on silver bells and cockle shells, but mine grows mainly on goose/poultry crappy bedding. It must be happy. It looks happy.
    Well.... not exactly. "New Dawn" is classified as a "climber". This bush is only 2 years old, and the canes are at least 15 feet long already. I have done little since putting it in the ground, and unruly canes are pruned via riding lawn mower as the fella zips by sometimes cursing when the canes fight back. All good climbers have good thorns for grip. I've heard climbers can grow up through trees and toy with the idea of securing to the telephone post near the bush. I'm pretty sure it would reach the top is the only reason I nixed that idea. I consider this the first "established" year for New Dawn and wonder if she will live up to her reputation of a continuous display of re-blooming till fall. That will be a welcome sight in the heat of August. We'll see.... And given time, might one day look like this beauty adorning a rooftop in Tennessee.   In Alabama and all across the south, spring is a mixed bag of warm, cool, cold and even hot (especially hot) weather. After weeks of warm weather with leaves on the trees and GREEN as far as the eye can see, the only words James Spann (local weathergod) can come up with for this oddly COLD weekend is: "Blackberry Winter"
 Don't strew me with roses after I'm dead.
When Death claims the light of my brow No flowers of life will cheer me: instead You may give me my roses now! - Thomas F, Healey the magic of roasted garlic I'm not sure how you can take a common rank, hot, smelly bulb of raw garlic, prep and put in oven for about an hour and transform it into smooth buttery roasted garlic. But I promise you, roasted garlic will take your taste buds off this planet and is CULINARY MAGIC! Am I yelling? Sorry....it's that good.
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Karen @ The Art of Doing Stuff makes me laugh pretty much every day. Yesterday she had a post that may still apply to you Northern viewers. It's a little late to be starting anything indoors here in the South, and our last frost date is typically around the first day of April. DISCLAIMER: Actual last frost date is April 19th for zone 7b. However, 90% chance that any frost on the tomatillos is gone till fall. Thank you Dave's Garden for the wonderful information allowing a person to enter their zip code to receive info specific for your area. I spent a small fortune on peat pots, peat pellets and plastic cups with a hole poked in bottom for drainage. Check out a cheaper way to make containers to start your veggies indoors, and tell Karen I said hello. ~Kim  Tomatillo plants for sale NOW!!
YUM! -- SALSA VERDE These plants were grown from seed purchased from Baker Creek Heirloom Seed in Missouri. $3.00 per plant and ready to go in the ground. Limited Availability so get em before they are gone!  Rocky Top Lettuce Blend Spring is coming fast in Alabama. How is it already March?? I love having a mixed leaf lettuce garden and MISSED the planting date for our zone. Lettuce is cool season crop, and for a warm climate like Alabama, should be planted no later than February to allow enough growing time before the heat is too much and lettuce "bolts" into seed and not edible any longer.
Not surprising, I found seed potatos at the feed store. Potatoes are a warm season crop and need rich amended soil to grow well. I haven't grown potatoes in many years mainly due to the hard clay soil but couldn't resist since I had the garden space already set aside. Stay tuned.... |
Kelley Creek Farms is a small (micro really) hobby farm located in Central Alabama 30 minutes south of Birmingham. We raise heritage and rare waterfowl and poultry along with a myriad of other creatures that give the farm its life. In addition to the birds, we raise heirloom tomatoes and vegetables.
Each day is different and brings a new set of adventures. Some make you laugh and some make you cry. Some are just plain frustrating. But we persevere knowing that tomorrow's set of problems will be completely different than today. Still figuring all this out ....one day at a time and striving for a more sustainable way of life. ALL
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