Remember those citrus trees I planted here in Atlanta?  They’ve set fruit!  Stay tuned.

If it’s going to go on and be so mild this winter, we’re going to have carrots for Christmas.

Knobby carrots, eh?  They’re made that shape.  Called “beefheart,” they grow short and stumpy, which is a more successful shape in Georgia clay than long and skinny.

The seeds went in in fall, as usual.  But [...]

Omm nom nom, eating my first cool-weather salad of the year.

It might have been earlier, but I was out of town.

And while I was gone, the vegetables out-competed the weeds!

Have got assorted kale, lettuce and radishes.

There are also carrot seedlings which will grow slowly through the winter. They’ll be ready [...]

Mmm … a rich day of foraging yesterday.  Got nearly two pints off the vines in my parking lot at home.  Would have been a lot more if I had a bucket truck!

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The garden doesn’t wait on you, you wait on the garden. The grapes came in yesterday, all of them. As did several pounds of tomatoes. Which dictates my schedule today.

The haul is, of course, from Paw Paw’s house. I’ve got, hm, about 4 or 5 lbs of clean ripe Concord grapes for making [...]

We are going to have about eight watermelons in the yard this year and this is the first one.

I say “we” because my husband and I both are gathering the watermelons and eating them.  But when I talk about planting, it will be “I.”

The first watermelon of summer, for my money, is [...]