How My Gardens Grow

     We've lately had gully washer rains here.  But I've filled my herb garden with an assortment of plants that seem to be doing quite well except my peppermint which fizzled out rather quickly. I sowed a handful of dill and fennel seeds as well as a sack of leek bulbs and a head of garlic broken into separate cloves.
     Most on my tomato plants are doing fair to middling.  Corn and okra are sprouting  but so far peppers are all no show.  I'll sow another bunch of seeds for them PDQ. I ordered online and have received 1/4 pound of Salsify (Oyster Root) seeds which I'll probably give one entire 6' x 6' raised bed to.
     I have volunteer sunflowers and even wheat in my back yard where I had the ducks as well as wild garlic all over the place and a patch of dewberries at the front door.
     When I lived in the trailerhood, I had a small garden patch. I tossed an overripe tomatillo into the dirt and Lo and behold soon had a half dozen or so tomatillo plants. I bought one of the fruits the other day so I'll just slice it up, place the slices and cover with dirt to see what happens. As happy as I am to see something I plant grow, I think it's even better when God plants a seed in my garden and it thrives. I don't recall where all my dill came from in the 'hood but it was spreading across the yard, the base or mother plant had a trunk almost 1/2" thick. Whenever I mowed, the whole yard reeked of pickles!
     I've some 1/2 dozen or so bundles of catnip that I've harvested and dried, at least another 2 bunches ready to cut and a pair of 4" x 16" or so planters of roots I've pulled. When I'm certain they'll survive, I can separate them into individual cups for sale.

     The store where I work marked down all their 40 pound sacks of topsoil  to 2/ $3.00 or $1.50 each and I fetched home 8 sacks or 320 pounds (as marked). Some had taken on some water and were more than the poundage marked. I just looked at the added water weight as water I didn't have to add myself. I got 1 sack for each 6' x 6' bed, by the way.

     I'm looking at perhaps another month until I get my truckload of sand shoveled and barrowed to where I want/need it.  With all the rain we've lately had I reckon it won't be long after that I'll order a truckload of brown dirt. Hey, that's what the lady who answered the phone called it! I've been marking where I bog down in the back yard and low spots up front.

     If I want to work in sunshine but it rains, I say.... "I wanted sunshine but GOD wanted rain. Am I gonna argue with Him?"