A visit from my son who lives in Virginia reinforced the blessing of our climate. His summer garden will go into the ground this week. Our Charlotte garden is ready to start producing. There are small yellow and zucchini squash on the plants. We may pick squash by the weekend. There are two tiny tomatoes. The cucumbers and some of the peppers have blossoms. The okra is over a foot tall.
The holiday weekend provided an opportunity to catch up much of the backlog of garden and yard work. The grass still needs cutting as it always does. There are a few plants in the garden that still need to be side-dressed with compost, but there is no more compost until next weekend. There was a huge pile of compost on a tarp. It seemed an impossibility that it would all be used, but it was. Even the compost that was finished this weekend was used.
There is also a problem with odor from the compost pile that was not present last year. A plan is in place to correct the problem, but it will be revealed when it is shown to be effective.
David Segrest is an International REALTOR in Charlotte, NC. His email is david@segrestrealty.com , His webpage is http://davidsegrest.com , and his international real estate blog is http://dointernationalrealestate.blogspot.com/
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