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Ladies and gentlemen, start your gardens

For the last few weekends, we’ve had a preview to warm, sunny summer days spent outdoors and gardens. I reinforced the raised beds, added soil and manure and turned soil to create additional planting space.

I planted several varietals of exotic beans, including Yin Yang beans. I planted spinaches, lettuces, green onions, rainbow chard, carrots and Walla Walla onions. The only ornamental plants this year will be two varieties of sunflowers.

I also started some seeds indoors: melons and squashes, leeks, tomatoes, eggplant and pumpkin. I planted these in bigger containers as well as eggshells. The eggshells are an experiment that several people are trying this year.

I also planted herbs in smaller containers: oregano, cilantro, several kinds of basil, thyme, dill and mint. The parsley from last year that I grew from seed is doing quite well, and amazingly enough, so is the sage. Iʼll keep you posted on seedling progress, outdoor transplanting time and overall success of my little garden.

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