by Greg Grant | May 8, 2020 | Garden, Greg's Ramblings
I recently ordered two cultivars of sweet potato slips from George’s Plant Farm in Georgia (tatorman.com). This will give me three different kinds to grow, one here in my cinder block raised bed after I dig my Irish potatoes, one in my raised fire ring bed at Big...
by Greg Grant | Apr 7, 2020 | Greg's Ramblings
If you didn’t already grow your own vegetables and herbs, then the recent pandemic predicament should have you minding your peas and Q’s. We all know that vegetables are essential for a long, healthy life, and we all know that fresh picked produce is tastier and more...
by Greg Grant | Mar 9, 2020 | Garden, Greg's Ramblings
Among many other things, springtime means bluebirds in Texas and much of the U.S. Thankfully there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t hear the gentle warble of bluebirds either at home or at work. Thanks to their beauty, pleasant disposition, and sweet warbling,...
by Greg Grant | Feb 4, 2020 | Garden, Greg's Ramblings
Roasted, baked, mashed, or fried. The day I don’t love ‘em, is the day I died. As you know, I was born in love with gardening. Heck, flowers, fruit, bulbs, trees, shrubs, natives, and vegetables were all fair game for me. I spent my early childhood in Longview...
by Greg Grant | Jan 1, 2020 | Garden, Greg's Ramblings
…if you don’t know where you are, you probably don’t know who you are. -Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison 1952 For an old man, Father Time, never slows down. He’s the original Energizer Bunny…a true perpetual motion machine. So here we are in a new decade. Some of us are...
