Donna Young

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Tuesday I bought 9 Beauregard sweet potato plants from a local store. I haven’t grown sweet potatoes in a very long time. This afternoon I started digging the bed for the plants. Sweet potatoes like a hot sunny place, so I decided to put them in a location that is already taken.
The plants in the […]

This is just an update on the in-ground seed flat that I showed a photograph of in the first garden entry for this season, and in that entry, I wrote brief instructions to make an in-ground seed flat.
In the flat, I planted these seeds:

Zinnia, Giant, Scarlet Flame
Milkweed (thanks Michelle)
Sweet Basil
Catnip
Sweet Marjoram
German Chamomile
Lemon Balm

I planted the […]

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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