Garden 2010

[xoxoxoBruce]

Now's the time to plan. I got this wonderful catalog from D. Landreth Seed Company. I'd read an article in the paper last November about the history of this 1784 company, and the woman who is trying to rebuild it from the little outfit it had become after WWII, back to it's glory days of one of the nations leading seed companies.

This years catalog is beautiful. They're reproduced many of the pages of the 1874 centennial catalog, and have a section put together from a list of African American traditional veggies put together by Michael Twitty, a cultural historian. This is a good fit because they specialize in heritage seeds.

Veggies, vines, herbs, flowers, ornamentals, so much to do....

Oh, and this is the last year the catalog will be free.

[skysidhe]

hum nice

I looked through the pages. It is a very beautiful catalog.
I'd gladly plunk down $5 dollars for it.

[Juniper]

As a garden catalog lover, I have to pitch my favorite catalog -- based, at least, on the awesome catalog covers! Check 'em out.

http://www.plantdelights.com/Catalog/Ghosts/

[squirell nutkin]

Very nice! live not far from the home of the former J.B. Rice seed company. He was one of the huge "robber barrons" of our area. He and a few of his pals installed the water system to the entire village on their own dime.

During WWI he re-tasked all his fields to grow beans for Uncle Sam (thus letting all his other commercial crop seeds fade out) the war ended and he was left with a lot of beans and not much market for them. That was pretty much the end of hs dynasty.

There is still a lot of memorabilia in the area. I'll see if I can find and upload some seed packets.

[glatt]

We planted a garden yesterday. Decided to plant it in the front yard this year because of all the sun there. The soil here is terrible. All clay. So we mixed some bags of topsoil in with it.

I've got big hopes for this one. We got an automatic water timer so even when the mosquitoes are bad it will still get plenty of water. And it won't die when we take a vacation.

4 tomato plants, a packet of sunflower seeds, a bunch of basil, sage, dill, and a few other herbs I'm forgetting right now. Oh, and some other flowers too.

It took 3 hours yesterday afternoon, but through the magic of my new time lapse plantcam, you can watch us do it all in only a little over a minute.

[squirell nutkin]

Is your wife a teamster gardener?

[glatt]

the camera doesn't lie, does it? The Aussie neighbors came over for a chat. We had to be social. It would be rude to keep working.

[squirell nutkin]

I really need one of those. As long as it isn't pointed at the computer.

[Shawnee123]

That plantcam might be the coolest thing evah.

Thanks for letting us watch you and your family plant your garden. It makes me smile.

[Spexxvet]

flowers

[lumberjim]

very cool glatt..... but you need a haircut, hippie.

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Shawnee123

That plantcam might be the coolest thing evah.

It's a lot of fun.

I've been trying to come up with neat things to film. I pointed it at the back yard from an upstairs window while I was mowing the lawn. But it didn't work out well. The edges of the yard were outside of the shot, and I learned that I spend most of my time there at the edges as I turn around. The movie is a shot of a big empty back yard, and occasionally I pop into view in the middle, always getting a little closer to the camera.

It would be great at public gatherings, like a demonstration from up in a tree, but I wouldn't want to leave it unattended someplace like that.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Tea party.

[zippyt]

I like How every Now and then all you see is a Kids face Peering into the Camera

[skysidhe]

oooh nice spex