The Garden is Coming Right Along!

Everything except for the okra is doing well. I planted 8 seeds and 8 plants came up. They go about 4 inches tall and one day I came out and 1 was completely gone. The next day I came out, and another was gone, and on and on. I now have 3 okra plants as of 5 o'clock this evening we shall see what we have tomorrow. I think some sort of critter is eating them as they didn't die over night they are completely gone. I should run and get more seeds as they are my all time favorite veggie. Perhaps I will place little cages around them.

Also my Lima, Green (two types) and Kidneys are all coming up very nicely too. I do believe that this same critter is ripping these legumes up as well. However, said critter must not care for legumes, or green onions. because I find bean sprouts and onions out of their planting hole laying on the ground every morning.

I have no natural wild rabbits, as the Cat population has wiped them out. I have done my best about informing my neighbors about their cats and asking them to keep them up, and they have, but I believe the damage has been done and it is too late. When I was a girl there were tons of rabbits here in the yard, but that time is gone.

This year I caught 6 cats in the trap that the county brings to me each year. They were all farral and nasty mangy looking things. The attraction to my house is something I simply don't understand.

I will be transplanting all of the pepper plants tomorrow, and am looking forward to tons of green peppers this summer, I am going to find a many recipes and possible and I will share them hear on canning as many things as possible instead of freezing them. I have such fond memories of the wonderul things my grandmother would can every season, they were so delicious and there was always something fabulous to eat.

With the prices of everthing including energy, I think that canning will be the most efficient and cheapest way of storing food, and if done without additives at home in glass jars not aluminum cans the food tastes extrordinary.

What I find so incredible during this time as opposed to the last time our boys were ate war in a variety of theaters, and our economy was doing so poorly our government encouraged us to plant what they called "Victory Gardens" . This is simply not the case this time,and as a matter of fact there is a bill in congross that will eliminate all backyard food production and limit food production, to liscened corporate farmers only. Call me paranoind if you must, but something is up! Gardening is the very first thing that we did as per God's instructions. I just don't know how well this legislation would go if in fact passed.