The “Harvest” of 2012 has officially begun! We are very proud of our first zucchini that we picked.
We planted only 10 seeds that have grown into 8 good-looking healthy plants. There are blossoms all over them and many have little zucchinis growing. Right now, this is the only one big enough to pick.
So, now we’ve just tilled up the yard…..so what to plant?!? We were already starting pretty late on this whole garden thing so we needed to get on the ball and buy some seeds and get planting. We bought various seeds from Tractor Supply, Walmart, Lowes, and Dollar General.
We were out in town and thought we’d run by Lowes and Walmart and pick up some seeds. These were not our usual store locations, but we were already there and they were more convenient at the time. Let me tell you don’t even bother going to a Lowes or Walmart in a city. Their selection is pitiful! We had much better luck going to our usual rural Lowes and Walmart.
Man, everywhere had tons of different types of green beans. We thought we wouldn’t do green beans because both of our Mama’s always keep us generously supplied with canned green beans. So, we were thinking maybe some other kinds of beans. I thought maybe we should try some October beans. I knew from growing up they are about the same thing as pintos, but is what most people around here always had. At least that’s how I recalled it…lol. Well, we couldn’t find October beans or pinto beans anywhere. We found some dragon tongue beans that look similar to a pinto but with some purplish stripes. We were curious so bought them.
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