Oak leaves the size of a cat's ear
I just realized that I forgot to list all of the things we'll be
planting in May. Suffice it to say that this is the month we put
in all warm weather crops --- tomatoes, peppers, sweet potatoes, basil,
beans, corn, squashes of all sorts, cucumbers, melons. You name
it, we plant it.
Supposedly, the Native Americans planted their corn when the oak leaves
were the size of a squirrel's ear. We put in our first planting
of corn (and a lot of other vegetables) a week ago when the oak leaves
were just shy of that size. Now, after five days of solid rain,
the oak leaves are more cat-ear-sized and the first seedlings are
peeking out of the ground. The photo above is a seedling of our
favorite type of summer squash --- Goldbar.
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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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