What put me onto this quirky subject was a recent foggy morning walk with Ernie. We were out in the pastures and into my nostrils wafted a noticeable scent of celery. Celery? It has been growing in my raised test-bed since March, and doing very well. However, over twenty-five years have passed since I first started it from seed and
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Beautiful spring-like weather has finally arrived in Fayetteville! Three days of sun and temperatures in the seventies have banished my cold weather procrastination and replaced it with sowing vegetable seeds. Looking at the tray in the image above isn’t very inspiring, I agree. But that is one of the great things about agriculture: a quiet sense of accomplishment. For example,
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As you can read in the piece Drat That Dirt, I have been relentlessly trying to grow things in amended black gumbo soil. So far, no luck. But recent developments from soil nutrient tests are pushing me into another reality (more about that shortly, in another article). Meanwhile, my agricultural bent has been channeled by Nature; or serendipity, you might
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It is called “gumbo”. No, it is not anything you can eat, at least not directly, not even with chicken and sausage. You grow things in it. Well……maybe. At a distance it looks black, closer it’s dark gray. [See the stuff at the top of this piece.] When it rains a lot, and you first-time-ever step into it – slurp
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