Summer seedlings
Torrential rains last
weekend hastened germination of the previous
week's planting.
First came the corn, then the green beans.
A day or two later, I
noticed a strange little seedling that looked like a weed but was
growing in straight rows. I checked my garden map and discovered
that the seedlings were one of this year's experiments --- urd beans
for sprouting.
Scorching temperatures
(highs near 90) tempted even the extreme heat-lovers out of the
ground. By Friday, a few of the okra, melons, and cucumbers were
up.
But these plants are all
gambles, put in the ground two weeks before the frost-free date, and I
suspect this will be a year for replanting. There's a good chance
of frost both tonight and tomorrow night, and I probably don't have
enough row covers to protect everyone. What were the odds we'd
get a redbud
winter, dogwood winter, and blackberry winter all
in one year? Probably pretty good considering that our frost free
date is still a week away.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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