April Home Garden Update

The Garden Tour is over, weeds are sprouting,

bluebirds nesting, and tomatoes are ripening.

Put "Eagle Pass" okra seeds in yesterday from Baker

Creek. You must order the catalog just for pix.

Pansies up yesterday and lovely coral pink petunias

in. Will be getting the "Farm Garden" ready for

pumpkins next week. Ordered more Llama Beans

for tea which will fertilize the pumps this year.

Here is an update on what is growing at home:

Lasagna Bed. This is the way

to do it. Hardly ever have to water as it holds moisture the

BEST.

Square Foot Beds 1 &2 growing

nicely. Vertical crops in back will need trellising probably

after the weekend Highs in 80's.

Radish, Romaine(Jericho), Beets.

Arugula and Chard doing nicely and all GREAT in salads...

The light purple is an old fashioned

Phlox from my friend, Barbara Botts' garden. She died last week

and this is the most prolific bloom I've had!

Posting more frequently...

Blessings from the Garden

ML

2 Days Left...

It's countdown time for the Sacred Heart Garden Festival!

Only 2 days left before the Grand Hall opens up with garden

vendors, garden exhibits, and floral design competition...AND

the tours of private gardens around town.

I hope you'll get a ticket and enjoy the weekend. Check out

www.sacredheartgardenfestival.com for complete details and

prices...

What's left for me? My friend Martha calls it FLUFF911...

Pine straw, picking more weeds, trimming anything dead,

and at least one more trip to the garden store!

Buy your ticket and come by...or better yet...start at my house

where you can buy the ticket!!!

Blessings from the Garden...

ML

Tour Update

(Weigela, variegated)
Sacred Heart Garden Festival 2010

April 23-25..

Private Garden Tours

Fri & Sat 11-5

Sun 12-5

Having my garden on tour is kind of like

having company or getting ready for Master's

rental! I decided to go ahead & have our Supper

Club over next weekend...what the heck! The yard

will be perfect and the party will be outside...

The tour next week is sure to be fun especially

for the explosion of new gardeners. You can

buy tickets at the private gardens or at Sacred

Heart Cultural Center.

Details at

www.sacredheartgardenfestival.com

I am posting a few pictures of some of my favorites

right now as they might not be in full show

for the tour...

Blessings from the Garden.

ML

ps. hope to see you next week!

Cross Vine

Spanish Bluebells

Pink Charm daffodils

Chinese Snowball

Home Garden Update

Home Garden Explosion 2010

Came home to another explosion in the Garden. Even after "coming in" to tend the garden earlier in the week during Master's vacation, there are so many new colors and sizes!

Above picture shows English Peas taking off onto twine trellis,

Jericho lettuce, 2 types of Radish, Arugula, and 9 Brandywine tomatoes

just beginning to soak up the warm temps...

Top pic shows a flat leaf Viburnum, below is a small

ornamental peach just beginning to produce fruit!

"Pink Charm" daffodils from Easy to

Grow Bulbs planted late and blooming nicely.

April's to Do's

Get Busy This Month!
April To Do's...

The month of April is about to get away
with me. We are escaping
the Master's Golf Tournament for the week. ...

This is a whirlwind time for planting/gardening,
so check posts daily!

Here's what we need to be doing...

#1. Buy Sam Swedish Chocolates (Put on Bed)
sorry my son is accustomed to fancier
hotels...

#2 Veggies...take a peek at this list
decide what you like to eat and get busy!
refer to UGA planting calendar
okra
southern peas(blackeye, pinkeye, cream, crowder, zipper)
bell peppers
hot peppers/hot sweet peppers
sweet potatoes (mid month)
all tomatoes
watermelon
pole, bush and lima beans
butterpeas
canteloupe
corn
cucumber
eggplant
basil, rosemary, parsley, chives, mint
any herbs you use for cooking..

#3. PLANT!

* keep tall and vertical growing
plants toward back of garden spot

* buy some zinnia seeds and plant.

* 2-3 weeks after planting corn and beans,
plant more, keep planting every few weeks
til may.

* BE CREATIVE! My corn will go in front yard
this year!

Fill me in on what you are up to, send pics too!
Blessings from the Garden.
ML