Withlacoochee Log

I tried to hang up the flag but it is too large for the porch. So I guess no flag on Flag Day.
The garden has gone wild with weeds but the squash are producing well. The okra will be blossoming soon and giving plenty of harvest for pickling. I may even try a few peas with it for an old-fashioned treat.

It is such a short life, or so it seems when an illness takes over a life. The thoughts of, what have I missed? and, why does it have to be this way? come through at this time.

The joke about the release of sewage into the Withlacoochee is shameful.

The squash, tomatoes and peppers are doing fine. The greenhouse find at the salvation army was a month late but will work well in the fall. MG is almost over and I look forward to CS with other gardeners.

Did some more transplanting in the front. The century plant was moved to make more room for the Artemisia. Pulled compost out of the pile and tried to cover the Hibiscus with it to see what happens. The seed catalog is out and I have a new Garden Journal to start. Purchased a mint, sage and

Turned pile,good steam, planted potatoes around the garlic. it is still to cold to do seeds. But will get the peas in in the next week. dark of the moon, roots?

The spinach was planted Thursday, along with transplanting of some daylilies and ground layering of the Artemisia. Continuing the raking, weeding and hoeing. Potatoes were planted at the farm today and city potatoes tomorrow. The compost keeps dropping in size and steams when it is turned on the cold mornings.
Bedding plants should be done as soon as this last Blackberry Winter is over by the middle of the week.