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Last Saturday we finally had asparagus emerge from the bottom of the trench. For over a month, I have been peering into the depths of the earth (well, six inches) looking those tiny green spears. All I had to show for it was two fire ant bites.

But Saturday there they were! Tiny, pencil-lead sized miniature asparagus. Of the thirty crowns we planted, at last count there were nine that had emerged. Now the trick is to wait for the others and then very carefully add another two inches of soil to the trench without breaking those delicate shoots.

When… READ MORE

A New Plant on the Block

March 11, 2013

The farm lands near Lake City, South Carolina, are bordered by deep ditches. Without those ditches, the area would be like a swamp, and even with those ditches, recently those fields have still been flooded. My family traveled through that part of the world on the way to a meeting in Ocean Drive and had an interesting discovery.

The week before, on Making It Grow!, Tony Melton had told me that farmers had unharvested vegetables going to seed in the fields – the ground was too wet to support a tractor. Many of those plants were Brassicas – members of the… READ MORE

Crape Myrtle Disappearance

February 04, 2013

The Calhoun County Museum/Cultural Center is a pretty nifty place, especially when you consider the size of its budget and staff (few dollars and few people). It is the repository for everything memorable that has happened in Calhoun County, and the way director Debbie Roland has managed to put it together so harmoniously is pretty astounding. A recent discovery for me is the hairdryer/chair used by Mrs. Hutto, who came to the United States as a war bride. She prided herself on her three years of instruction, the required course of study for a hairstylist in pre-war Germany. She had… READ MORE

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Finally at Last

A New Plant on the Block

Crape Myrtle Disappearance