[Magdalen] Garden report

[Grace Cangialosi]

I have a front yard full of violets...and buttercups...and dandelions...and clover. Oh...and some grass! But I live in the country, and as long as it’s green, it can grow, and I now from time to time.

Got a little start on some actual gardening this afternoon. I put in 4 tomato plants in 5gallon buckets with cages around them and started “seasoning” 2 straw bales for additional planting. I should have gotten 4 more. I did some straw bale gardening several years ago, and it really is a great system. I should have started preparing these bales a couple of weeks ago, though.

> On May 24, 2020, at 2:02 PM, P. Dan Brittain <pdan.brittain at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sweet Violets. No not the song, and not so sweet. My onion bed is infested
> with violets. I have to pull 1-2 rows of violets a day to keep up and it's
> easy to get behind. Starting Tuesday, we have about a week of rain, so more
> work to do. At least we discovered that violets are edible. We've been
> adding them to out salads daily along with fresh spinach and fresh Red
> Russian Kale. Have also started freezing spinach and kale.
> 
> 31 tomato plants in the ground. Potatoes in bags and a potato bin - and
> doing well. 5 plantings of green peas, 1st row blooming profusely, 2nd row
> starting to bloom. Green beans above ground and carrots. Squash is starting
> to peak out of the ground.
> 
> Peach trees are loaded - 1 thinning done and another to start. We'll get
> apricots this year for the first time. Apples will be light this year -
> didn't thin enough last year, so the main tree didn't bloom much this year.
> 
> Hope everyone is finding something to do.
> 
> Dan
> 
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> P. Dan Brittain
> Harrison, Arkansas
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