Saturday Aug 4, 2012 I picked 19 lbs cantaloupes and 6 lbs of maters and took to the ladies on Harris Cv. Then I gave 2 or 3 bulbs from 15 varieties to Mr Andrew Beretta for seed garlic. He did not know there was any kind but the Southern softneck he raises. He was thrilled. Also gave same allotment to the Master Gardener Davies Plantation PAR garden and Bob Hathaway.
Today Monday Aug 06 early Patree, Selby, Jana, Barbara and I picked 20 lbs peas and 23 lbs of maters and eggplants which I took to an elderly couple the Dobsons on Sunflower St south of the tracks. Those ladies did an amazing job - worked harder than the famous Ligon and Siler Appalachian pioneer families, and pulled all the weeds and peas vine up from plot 4 without leavin nary a sprig of green and stacked it all so purty.
This afternoon Bob, Sherry, and I pulled most of the rest of the spent sunflowers and all the pigweed we could find and hauled them and most of the pulled pea vines tuh the Dempsey Dumpster til hit war full. We were hotter than we'd been since we were in Peachtree TN.
The peas have about give out in plots 2 and 4. The newer purple hull peas in plot 5 and the crowder peas in plot 3 is beginning to bear good.
In the olden days we'da drove a wagon in the garden and pulled up the pea vines and gone back to the porch to pick'em offn the vines, then give the vines with any green or dried peas on'em to the chickens. Lawdy them chickens would go to running and cacklin and scratchin, kinda like the Ligons and Silers would do at a corn shuckin lookin for a red ear. The peas aint done for but they is giving out and a farmer has to make a decision to cut his/her losses and plant something else. We will plant mustard and turnips and maybe some onyuns,
3,005 lbs YTD + 25 + 43 = 3.073 lbs new YTD!
Connie and Laura took zinnias to Page Robbins and Baptist Trinity Hospice.
Thursday morning 630 we will pick peas and maters and jalapeno peppers and cantaloupes if any is reddy.
Aint God good!
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