Potting up Veggies with Sloanie Mae

Sloanie, (my grand daughter), and I potted up some veggies.
Green and Red Bell Peppers, and Petunias.

We made a special pot for her where she planted 3 beans so that she could watch them grow.  All the while she was singing Farmer in the Tail (Dale).  She is 3 and a half years old.  Hope she takes up gardening later in life.  We always say a bracha (prayer) whenever we plant or harvest something.  There is a saying, "Those closest to nature are closest to God".

Springtime

There are infinite segments of a moment in time.

There is a spring somewhere
  for a little seed.
And she awaits it's coming
  from here on winter's day.
The urge within her swells
  of wanting for the robin to come home
  and the trees to dress their naked, knotty limbs;
  for the children to laugh and sing...they too have gone.
I fear her fate.
 Should she thrust her infant spriglettes up
  to taste the sun
  too soon.
  Would the frosty night return
  beheading her, her frail existence,
  before the chance to bloom?
And if she waits another year
  her fate I still must fear.
  Could then a blizzard come
  to freeze her thoroughly to the bone;
  her Spring denied.
But then that fateful day appeared.
  She laid her trust upon the hand
  of a circumstantial god.
  Should if the frosty night return
  her effort will not have been in vain.
  Because that finite day contains
  An infinite of infinite springs.

MG Morris

The turnips are up

My turnips are up and they made a pretty good stand.  This time I'm going to make a special effort to thin them out more than ever in hopes of having healthier plants that could fight off the aphids.  The soil they are in is very good and that should also help.

Turnips and Radishes have arrived.

I've noticed the iris greening up.  A sign they have broken their winter dormancy.  Here in Oklahoma they also go dormant in the hot summer months and put on rhizome growth in the fall and early winter.  At one time I had 400 varieties but there is no way I could take care of that many now.  In fact I'll have to thin the herd even more this year.

Grape hiacynths

The grape hyacinths are blooming now.  They are quite plentiful around the neighborhood and quite beautiful when blooming in mass.

Jubilations! It's plantin' time in Shangri la.

Planted lettuce, radishes, onion slips, and put compost into raised bed.  So happy to get out into the garden and plant something.  BTW the little critter perched on the row marker stake is a cabbage butterfly watching her dinner being prepared.  

The bed on the left is raised about 6 inches while the one of the right is only 3 inches.  I've tried making them higher but they dry out too quickly in 102 deg weather.  The plants in the hog wire cage are black-eyed Susans...a native plant to Oklahoma.