by Greg Grant | Apr 12, 2022 | Garden, Greg's Ramblings
I’m married to a Cajun, so many meals start out with chopped and sautéed onion and bell pepper. I also love to eat fresh banana peppers with every summertime meal. Except for a few purple ones, most peppers begin their lives green and ripen to beautiful shades of...
by Greg Grant | Mar 29, 2022 | Garden, Greg's Ramblings
If you haven’t planted your tomatoes yet, you’ll want to get it done as soon as possible. Tomatoes are planted from transplants after all danger of frost in the spring. They cannot tolerate frost or freeze and thrive with mild and moderately warm temperatures in...
by Greg Grant | Mar 14, 2022 | Greg's Ramblings
Although most often associated as an herb or as a garnish, you’ll want to eat as much parsley you can, as it’s extremely nutritious. I used to frequent a restaurant in San Antonio that served it fried to a crisp and it was wonderful. Parsley can be frilly and curled...
by Greg Grant | Mar 8, 2022 | Greg's Ramblings
On February 25, friend Thera Lou Adams passed away in Fort Smith, Arkansas at 88 selfless years of age. She was born and raised in central Louisiana and later moved to Camden, Arkansas with her husband, Henry Nelton Adams. After retirement, Thera Lou became an active...
by Greg Grant | Mar 7, 2022 | Greg's Ramblings
I was born in love with flowers but with almost no access to nurseries, gardeners, display gardens, or mail-order catalogs. This meant I had to find flowers to admire where I could including the woods and the roadside. One of my favorites to this day is the assortment...
by Greg Grant | Feb 14, 2022 | Garden, Greg's Ramblings
When I was a small boy, the elderly Mr. Adams, who lived through the woods and up the hill from our house in Longview, asked me to help him plant his Irish potato crop. I remember how intrigued I was at putting pieces of potatoes into the soft loamy soil. The day we...
