Donna Young

Over the past few days, I have managed to get my backyard vegetable garden tilled and planted. My garden plant-able area measures 21 feet by 50 feet this year. The garden is a few feet behind my house.
I tilled it April 30th and this is how it looked the next morning.

This year I am planting:

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The temperatures dipped below freezing a couple of nights ago. It was inevitable and it killed most of my garden plants. I chose 2 pepper plants and 1 tomato plant to save. I wrapped their cages with moving blankets and so far, they are still alive. That is one of the advantages of growing plants […]

The summer was very dry in this part of the southeast corner of Tennessee. Most of Tennessee was in drought, and really, large parts of the south had severe drought this summer. Here, milk is over $5 a gallon because of the drought and this area is still in drought.
I’m not complaining. I watered the […]

One day in the recent past, something like over a week ago, I noticed that the little animals in the area had consumed every ripe sunflower seed that inhabited my little speck of earth that I fondly call garden. It just meant more work for me and getting it done sooner was better.
One evening, four […]

My helpers the sewing machine, the iron, and the cutting board were my companions today. Later I visited my tiller and hoe. Lunch, plain chicken and a large apple, was called sustenance because that best described it. I did not have to cook, just warm the cooked chicken and slice the apple. The other […]