Any week in the garden is holy to me; but in most of the south, there are some significant dates to consider. Regardless of the position of the moon and the stars, Good Friday is always considered to be an auspicious day for planting. Rotten Saturday (the Saturday before Easter Sunday) is always a bad day to plant anything. I have never had the courage to break these rules, so I don’t know if they are valid or not. Why take a chance?
Finally a single potato plant has stuck his pretty little head out of the ground. It looks like a little green rose. The grape vines have swelling buds. This is a great sign, because a dormant grape vine looks so dead that one doesn’t expect it to ever come back. The pea-vines are about 5” high and it is time to start supporting them.
The fall planted arugula and turnips have flowered and been pulled off. The Texas blue-bonnets have bloomed and are as pervasive as ever. It is inconceivable they should be a state flower. Why not the yellow rose? The blue bonnet could be the state weed.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://www.segrestrealty.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment