Eggs, Squash, Cherry Tomatoes Inside My Garden Hat
I was caught off guard the other day, and didn’t have anything convenient with me to collect my eggs, squash, and cherry tomatoes with. Remember I’m going through a remodel, and life is not normal. Then I thought of my faithful garden hat. It sent me into a philosophic moment, about “using what you have,” and “wanting what you have.” Something similar to what Sheryl Crow croons about. I’m all about re-purposing and finding atypical uses for things, so it put a smile on my face.
Borrowing once again from Charles B.Ledgerwood’s Southern California Vegetable Planting Calendar, best seeds to plant in July are: BEANS, beets, carrots, cantaloupe, celery, CORN, CUCUMBER, leek, LIMAS, okra, SQUASH, NEW ZEALAND SPINACH, and swiss chard. For the best planting months the names are capitalized.
Please share some things you have re-purposed, especially for the garden.
VintageGardenGal Tidbit Thyme…
This week I am attending the national Garden Bloggers Meet Up 2010, an annual convergence of garden bloggers and garden buzz. This year it is held in Buffalo, New York, and to all the attendees good fortune, tied in with a prelude to Garden Walk Buffalo, a free self-guided tour of more than 350 gardens around Buffalo, and the biggest garden tour in America. VintageGardenGal will return next week.
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What are Limas?, – here in Surrey England, there is a slightly different list, – beans, beetroot and carrots are on there, and so are perpetual spinach and chard, Kale, and sprouting broccoli, plus loads of salad leafs will be going in this month.
Claire, limas are lima beans, which remind me of fava beans. Thanks for sharing your planting list….VintageGardenGal
Thank you for the calendar reminder. I can’t plant anything right now because every bed is thriving. I recently re-purposed a beach umbrella to shelter some shade loving plants that had recently lost their shade. A couple of Santa Anita umbrellas are being used for the same reason. Funny. In Southern California an umbrella has more use to shield from the sun than from the rain.
Enjoy your Meet Up and please share what you learn.
Hi, Thanks for a wonderful post. If we all made use of what we have I think the world would be a much better place.
ah ha, just looked them up, and we call them butter beans, – havn’t seen any available here, so probably not hot enough for them, although it has been the last few weeks, but may try next year (wonder if my dried ones in the cupboard would sprout if soaked)
what a very cool blog post! I’m grateful I took the time to read the whole post