I think the thermostat is broken

 Welcome back to another episode of Lost In the Farmers Market, and wow June has been a test of everyone’s patience hasn’t it? It’s been super-hot and then not so much, we’ve had Thunder storms, thundershowers and flooding. Then there’s the weirdo pollen problems, I swear August is going to be absolute hell, and to think certain people still deny climate change. Well anyway today’s blog post is all about the garden photographs and what’s going on in the test gardens so be prepared for a lot of images folks.

Ricinus communis ‘Zanzibar’ – Castor Bean

 

That’s right folks this is one of those giant castor beans I was selling at the market. I kept one for planting in the gardens and here it is. In just two weeks after it’s planting its newest leaves are already a foot in diameter. When I joke about this plant being really good at drawing attention away from other things it’s not a joke it’s more or less an observation of fact. I will post a monthly photograph to show how big these things really can get so all you gardeners out there can really see what those not-so-tiny seedlings are capable of.

 

Solanum x burbankii - Wonderberry

 

Some of my customers at the market looked at the Wonderberries with a bit of doubt, which is understandable; they do look a lot like a certain weed. But then Wonderberries are very close to their genetic origins and as such they have not been as genetically homogenized as things like their cousin, the Better Boy Tomato. Even if you bought these with no intention of eating the purplish-black berries the plants still are interesting to look at and certainly will get you answering all kinds of questions. Take a peek at my post from last month to see how much growth has happened with this plant in just three weeks.

Nicotina alata ‘Seratoga Purple Bicolor’, ‘Seratoga Rose’ – Flowering Tobacco

Some folks seemed confused by the idea of growing tobacco just for the flowers, but some could not tell the difference between the purple and rose types. Purple is on the left and has a faded ‘face’ while Rose is on the right and is a pink-rose color throughout the bloom.

 

Hemerocallis sp. - Daylilies

It’s sort of a tradition to post pictures of the day lilies when they bloom and these are my assorted mix, there are some tawny day lilies int here and a bunch of other assorted types and colors.

 

Physalis sp. – Ground cherry

It’s impossible to know what specific variety this volunteer is, it could be the Cossack Pineapple, it could be Cape Gooseberries, it could be the new seed I bought at the beginning of the year. All I know is it volunteered in the same pot as my Yerba Mate (Ilex paraguariensis) and I’m ok with that.

 

Echinacea purpurea ‘Cheyenne Spirit’ – Coneflower

The crazy reddish-pink coneflowers are still going, they seem to like their spot but that garden bed could use a weeding. Remember folks, roses and coneflowers do make good company.

 

Hemerocallis sp. ‘Gentle Shepherd’ – Day lilies

Originally slated as a fill in for the Memorial bed, and then used in a curbside bed and then transplanted into the Compass bed in 2017, these plants sure get around. They’re bigger and healthier than ever.

 

Clinopodium vulgare – Wild Basil

For those with a good memory I offered these plants for sale in a prior year. Well as it turns out they are definitely perennial, and they seem to be doing just fine in the test gardens with light maintenance. Yes you can use the leaves in cooking, they impart a flavor that’s a bit like Thyme and Basil combined.

 

Hibiscus moscheutos ‘Texas Star’ – Swamp Rose Mallow

Does anyone remember how I tell that story about that one neighbor I used to have who mistook a plant in my front yard for Marijuana? Well this is that plant, it’s a hibiscus, but until the flowers bloom it really does look like a recreational herbal substance.

 

Opuntia ellisiana – Spineless Prickly Pear

While the flowers do not last long, boy are they a sight to behold!Prickly Pear is a true cactus and Cactus blossoms are worth all the troubles that cacti can give you when the plants are not in bloom.

 

Capsicum chinense x frutiscens ‘Fayetteville Inferno’ – Fayetteville Inferno

There she is, pushing four of five years old, the oldest and biggest of the pepper plants I grow at the test gardens, she’s taller than she’s ever been and gets special treatment. You see Peppers are short-lived perennials, and to get one to live more than three years in cultivation is a bit uncommon. This pepper is at least four years old and I’m hoping for a fifth growing year. Why all the fuss? This is the only Fayetteville Inferno Pepper plant in existence anywhere. I’m harvesting seed and taking cuttings this year just to keep the line going.

 

Brassica oleracea medullosa – Marrowstem Kale

Marrowstem Kale was an oddball seed purchase based on the name. I mean a kale that doesn’t get woody or stringy stems where you can eat almost the entire thing? What is not to like about that level of efficientcy? What no one mentioned was that these Kales can bet massive, like on the scale of how big a properly grown Collard or Cabbage-Collard Plant can get. The specimen pictured has leaves that are a foot long and it’s stem is 1” in diameter. Despite its sinewy looking main stem it seems to be doing just fine, even cabbage moth damage doesn’t seem to be slowing it down. This has got to be some kind of a growing record, and now I’ve found it has a specific scientific name that diverges from the names of all other Kales.

Here's some info on the plant:

https://pfaf.org/user/Plant.aspx?LatinName=Brassica+oleracea+medullosa

 

With all that garden goodness covered this is the part of the blog where I have to advertise for the Fayetteville City Market. Now I know you readers probably don’t much like advertisements, but by booth at the City Market helps to cover the costs of running the test garden and literally maintains the Research & Development budget that is used to bring you the information that has made up the backbone of this blog. Also, as of the start of 2019, my booth can now process credit or debit cards thanks to the acquisition of s a Square reader so your payment options have doubled. With that said, if you want to get some GMO-free, Organic vegetables, herbs and fruiting shrubs come on down to the Fayetteville City Market on 325 Maxwell Street in downtown Fayetteville between the Hours of 9:00 am and 1:00 pm on Saturdays. Even in bad weather the market goes on though you might have to look for me under the ‘arches’ of the Transportation Museum’s front entryway.

 

Summer Veggies: ($3.00 each)

Pepper, Sweet Banana, Poblano/Ancho, Habanero, Golden Bell, Ghost ($4.00)

African Runner Peanuts (Almost Gone!)

Herbs: ($3.00 each)

Basil, Emerald Tower, Dolche Fresca, Rutgers DMR Devotion

Cervesa & Lime Cuban Oregano

Oregano

Thyme

Ornamental Stuff: ($3.00 each)

Cotton, Erlene's Green (Limited Quantity)

Flowering Tobacco 'Saratoga Purple', 'Saratoga Rose'

Marigold 'Antigua Yellow', 'Durango Red',  'Tangerine',  'Hero Bee'

Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm'

Coming Soon:

Comfrey (Herb, late summer)

 

We have a new place to share information and work on groovy sustainable stuff!  You can look for Sustainable Neighbors in our own Nextdoor.com group under the name “Sustainable Neighbors of Fayetteville”. You don’t have to live in Fayetteville to join but it is a private group so feel free to request to join us if you are signed up on the Nextdoor.com site.

 

https://nextdoor.com/g/ybvdm226x/?is=nav_bar

 

Unfortunately, Covid-19 is still mucking up the works in terms of meeting in person. The good news is that Sustainable Neighbors does have a Discord Server. You can request access through our Meetup.com page or you can request access via our Nextdoor.com group. The meetup.com page is below for anyone looking to join us.

 

https://www.meetup.com/SustainableNeighbors/

 

Since our meetings have an open-door policy you don’t need to buy anything or maintain any sort of attendance standard, you can come on in and join the meetings. When this Covid-19 mess calms down we may be able to resume normal in-person meetings. If not, you can always send me questions through this blog or visit the farmer’s market. This brings to a close the Twelfth LITFM post of 2021; stay tuned the next episode which should be posted on or around the 25^th of June. There will be more garden updates and other cool stuff.

Apparently it rains everywhere else but the test gardens...

Welcome back to another episode of Lost in the Farmers Market. Today we are going to forgo the loose garden photo format to talk a bit about the events of the garden tour last week. Some of you could not make it to see the sights and pose your questions so I thought it would be a good idea to post the most frequently asked questions so that until the next Sustainable Neighbors garden tour in October you could at least get some of what you wanted to know answered. You can bet there will be garden photos but they’re last in line and come before the market listings. So without further delay I’m happy to present the most frequently asked questions regarding the test gardens.

1. “What are the Test Gardens? 

The test gardens are an extended study of the feasibility, productivity and economic viability of organic gardening and agricultural practices for use in urban or semi-urban environments that can be expanded for use in rural environments with limited space. To put that more simply the idea is to see if organic growing can work in places with limited space for the least amount of cost and the most productivity. Thus far there have been several versions of the test garden over the years with the smallest being the original fire escape garden and the largest being the current version in Fayetteville.

My vision for the test gardens is to use it as a functional example and template for others to see how it can be done and foment their own ideas and implement their own plans for urban agriculture and sustainable organic practices.

2. “How big are the Test Gardens?

The overall area of the property is a half –acre. From an inner-city perspective this is a lot of area, and from a rural angle it’s tiny. However as I’ve said before the front half of the property looks perfectly normal and suburban while the rear of the property is where the sustainable activity tends to be. Officially speaking there is a little over a thousand square feet of cultivated area, out of which approximately 1177.83 square feet are used to grow food crops in raised beds. In addition to the ‘in-ground’ beds, there is a large number of potted crops growing as well. As of  this writing of this article, the container garden section of the test gardens includes, two 10.5” buckets, twenty-five 3-gallon nursery pots, four 6.5” pots, six 7.75” pots, two 7.5” pots, six 12” pots, one 15” fabric pot and a single 13” pot. This adds up to a grand total of 62.47 square feet of additional growing area.

I’d say it’s not bad for a study in sustainability to be able to produce food with 1240.3 square feet of growing area. For fair reference, 1240.3 square feet is about 2.8% of an acreor in short…. If I had a farm sibsity like most farmers do my cost per pound of food would be equal or less than what you pay at the supermarket even with labor added in.

3. “Is it worth it? /How much do you really produce?”

In the case of the first part of the question the answer is an undoubting yes. Like any other project there are moments of doubt and so on in regards to if the message is being understood and if the things under trial will work. In the end however it is utterly worth it when I hear gardeners out there are trying their first attempts at a new idea or are trying some of what the test gardens are currently doing. To answer the second question we produce more than you might think. Armed with a kitchen produce scale I started weighing the literal fruits of the test garden’s labors in 2009. So far the following yearly information has come from the study of productivity.

2009 – Negligible

2010 – 25.25 pounds (first year of aggressive soil enrichment)

2011 – 111.55 pounds

2012 –  71.03 pounds (Drought and whitefly infestation caused crop losses)

2013 – 54.04 pounds (prolonged rain season caused summer crop losses)

2014 – 2.96 pounds (this total is in progress, a bad winter killed most of the winter crops.)

4. “I live in an Apartment/Condo, how can I garden?”

That should not be a problem, as you can see with the above area information, the test gardens incorporate 46 container crops as of this writing and I fully expect that to be fifty or more in the coming days. But if you do not have the space for big 14” or larger diameter containers there is the option of window boxes or herbs grown in smaller pots to sate your inner gardener. In fact some of the pots in the test gardens are in the 6” diameter range and ornamental potted plants often can make due with 4-6” diameter pots.

There is also a wide range of edible house plants such as Okinawa spinach or even the medicinal house plants such as the aloe family to fit your need. Space is honestly the least of your worries.

5. “What about this ‘Organic’ stuff I hear it’s a hoax!”

That’s both true and false. On one had you have major corporations that want to slap the term organic on things whether they actually are organic as per standards outlined by groups such as the Oregon Tithe or are “organic” because some corporate entity says so. On the other hand you have the lawyers who are paid to create intentionally ambiguous and confusing language to make identification of truly organic materials harder. Somewhere in the middle is the consumer who half the time cannot even get a real honest answer from the other two and has to rely on interpersonal networks and their good judgment. 

The concept of growing organic crops or raising live stock in an organic fashion is not a hoax any more then rain catchment systems are a fraud. In fact it is a very legitimate means to increase the longevity the land. Whether you agree or not the land itself is alive, every single blade of grass is covered in organisms, and the same can be said for every speck of dirt. Although it has not been studied in a multi-decade long study to determine side effects of agricultural chemical pollution there is some short term and median information to suggest that practices such as mono-cropping, GMO crop proliferation and mass application of pesticide and insecticides is not positive. But for you at the very least, if you grow your crops organically, you know that they have no funny business going on. Keep in mind the average head of lettuce travels at least a few hundred to a few thousand miles to get to you there is no telling what happened before during or just before you bought it. The head of lettuce growing outside in your back yard? You can be sure you know what went on there. And that is the point, organic growing practices are food security.

6. “What is the point?! [Insert reason not to garden]”

I do get this sort of question every so often, typically it’s worded in a confrontational way and as always I answer it anyway. The reason I encourage urban farming, sustainability and gardening in general is that it’s flat out good for you. The act of gardening is formally recognized as exercise, more so whatever you grow has a positive effect on your outlook. Consider how rewarding it is to see that tiny seed go from a crusty dry thing to a gorgeous adult plant over a period of weeks or years. Some will say negative things about the bugs, or chemicals in the rain or jet contrails making it cloudy or whatever and you know what? I keep on gardening because in the end, anyone who opens with a negative assessment telling you not even to try has their own problems that need work, not you. The best part is that as they try and dissuade you from gardening, you can drown them out with the crunch of that salad composed of lettuce, spinach, amaranth, tomatoes and cucumbers that you grew on premises and smile knowing that you’ve just proved the doubters wrong.

So those are the six most common questions I get both on garden tours and at the farmer’s market table. I got a little wordy with some but that’s just what it takes to explain. We have a brief weekly photo section and then the market information.

Oenothera biennis – Sundrop/ Common Evening Primrose

I’ve talked about it a bit before but here is a night time picture of the evening primroses in bloom at about 8 pm at night. True evening primroses bloom right after dusk to attract moths and some species of pollinators. Despite having very pretty flowers they are not aromatic in a good way. For note this traditional form of primrose is a biennial.

Sanseveria trifaciata – Snake Plant / Mother In law’s Tongue

Now here’s something I’ve yet to see, a snake plant in bloom, um, yeah it’s not quite the prettiest of blooms but as far as these plants being willing to bloom I think the flowers are kind of cool. The sanseveria group rarely bloom and for note in this picture both the birds nest dwarf type and the true tall type are growing in the same pot.

Solanum sp. – Cape Gooseberry or Ground cherry

Yet another member of the ground cherry or gooseberry clan appears as a volunteer. I’m beginning to wonder if there’s some trick at work here, they do not germinate when I sow the seed but will germinate once the seed starting pellet is tossed out in the garden. Maybe I ought just throw about fistfuls of ground cherry seed and see if I get a delicious forest

Salvia guaranitica ‘Black and Blue’ – Black & Blue Sage

Black and blue sage in bloom is something to behold. The humming birds love it and while it has no herbal uses I know of the striking combination of the black stems and electric indigo flowers is enough to throw some extra sparkle to any garden bed.

Rudbeckia maxima – Giant Coneflower

Giant cone flower is a rudbeckia that can get up to six feet tall, and are best pet as the tallest ornamental in a bed for the obvious reason that they get very huge. Much like cut leaf coneflower R. laciniata, giant cone flower is a experience unto its own. They are essentially wild species that the industry has not tampered with so, the giant cone flower is a rudbeckia for part shade while the cut leaf coneflower likes moist stream banks. Bot can be used to expand the range of your garden’s options.

Lampranthus sp – Variegated Ice plant

I know this was on last week’s post, but finally I snapped a photo of the plant with its flowers open. The normal skinny leaf ice plant has bigger flowers but I still like this one the bright pink contrasts nicely with the foliage.

Bufo fowleri – Fowler’s Toad

So after the Wednesday market was rained out I returned home to find this little guy hopping about inside the enclosed patio. I still can’t for the life of me figure how he got in there as he could not have hibernated in a plant, none on the deck had been outside, nor could he have come in under the door, the gap is too small. My nearest guess is this tad burred in under the foundation and got onto the deck through the crawlspace entry but either way this critter had to be put back outside or he’d die. So it took some doing but I finally caught him and placed him in the block bed. Moments later the toad burrowed into the soil doing this crazy spinning move to dig and then unburied himself once night fell. Such is the way things are at the test gardens, critters aplenty. I might add that in the neighborhood of the test gardens there are the toads, and the resident frogs. The frogs are Hyla andersonii or Pine Barrens Tree frog. I photo graphed one of these guys hanging out in the fig bushes last year.

This weekend there is a chance of a thunder shower so I’d advice considering bringing a umbrella. The chances are not high but it is better to be prepared than soaked. For reference the Fayetteville farmer’s market occurs Wednesdays between 2 and 6 pm, and on Saturdays between 9am and 1 pm. The market is located at 325 Franklin Street in the front parking lot of the Fayetteville Transportation museum. I’m now present at both market days so you now have two opportunities per week to hit up the booth for info or plants and let me tell you, flower season is upon us. Some of the rare plants and exotics will be appearing this weekend so get ready for horticultural mayhem. This weekend’s plant list is as follows.

Southward Skies: A northern guide to southern Gardening

This is the second edition of my book, which was published using data compiled from several years of test garden operations. It’s written to aid gardeners of all skill levels in successful garden methods that are targeted for the south east but had proven to be a valued resource for gardens across the eastern coast. It’s certainly a good gift for that gardener you know or for yourself if you’d like to have a reliable field guide. The book costs $25.00 and we do take checks for this item, you can even have it signed.

Vegetables

3x Eggplant, Casper , 3.5” pot ($3.00)

3x Eggplant, Louisiana Long Green, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Pepper, Jalapeno, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Pepper, Habenero, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Pepper, Sweet Banana , 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Pepper, Pimento, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Pepper, Carolina Wonder, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Tomato, Brown Berry, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

1x Tomato, Cherokee Purple, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Tomato, Martino’s Roma, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Tomato, Rainbow Cherry Mix, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Tomato, Red & Yellow Currant, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

3x Tomato, Reisotomate, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Tomato, Underground Railroad, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Cucumber, Armenian, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Cucumber, Poona Kheera, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

Fruits

6x Strawberry- Ozark Beauty, 3.5” pot ($3.00) (On sale!)

2x Ground Cherry, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

Herbs

4x Basil, Sweet, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Basil, Thai, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Basil, Cinnamon, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Basil, Red Rubin, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

3x Chives, Common, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Fennel, Black, 7” pot ($6.00)

1x Lavender, Munstead, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Marjoram

4x Oregano, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Parsley, Italian, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

4x Sage, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

4x Thyme, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

Ornamental:

2x Passion Vine, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

Coming Soon:

Black Hungarian Pepper

Artemesia

Rosemary

Lavender ‘Hidcote’

Potatoleaf Hillbilly Tomato

Japanese Black Trifele Tomato

Melon, Vine Peach

Melon, Horned

Well this has been a rather long episode hasn’t it, and here we are at its end with the precipitation report. Surprisingly up until the shower on Wednesday we had virtually no noticeable precipitation despite several showers that deposited less than 0.10” of rain. This later rain event was far more generous lasting about a half hour and leaving with an average of 0.375”. a bit over a quarter inch isn’t much but it’s better than the humidity soaked nothing we were getting before.

They said it'd rain...all it's done is fail.

Welcome back to another episode of Lost in the Farmer’s market or LITFM for short. Due to workload in real life there is no real post this week however I do have the Plant list for the Saturday market and some nice pictures from the test garden. So despite the lack of normal content enjoy the following garden-licious filler.

Santolina chamaecyparissus - Levender-Cotton

Many of the customers at the farmer's market ask me just what the flowers of Lavender cotton look like and when it blooms. The picture above was taken this week and those flowers should persist roughly until the real heat of August slows things down and may return again sometime in autumn.  The flowers of Lavender-cotton are held on thin stalks and are the brightest shade of yellow imaginable but lack any noticeable petals.

Capsicum anuum 'Sangria'- Sangria Ornamental Peppers

These guys survived all winter in a small 6" pot and have been transplanted up into a three gallon nursery pot. Fromt eh same seed batch one pepper bears the distinctive purple foliage while the other is plain green and the bright fuscia-pink peppers give away it's heritage. I bet by late summer this plant will be kind of epic.

Delphinum consolida.- Larkspur

A surprising volunteer, this is a Larkspur, I don't know which variety yet  but it came with the bag of Pennington wild flower seed I spread across the berm that forms the back bone of the crescent bed. Almost mistaking the young plants for a common dog fennel I almost pulled them up but decided to be lazy as they were not in the way. Talk about luck the bright blues are fantastic.

[Update: This plant is also known as Consolida regalis and is an annual.]

Hyssopus officinalis - Hyssop

No really, I went to snap a shot of the hyssop there in the back ground and the wind shifted and suddenly  a pair of narrow leaf coneflowers (Echinacea angustifolia) was all up in the picture. Some times not even trying the plants have a life of their own.

Asclepias tuberosum - Plerusey Root / Common Milkweed

The milk weeds get better and brighter every year and this year they are off the hook. It's like a spray of orange fireworks and the best part is some of the branches are coming up inside the garden bed.  As some might know I spent an incredible amount of time growing this clump from seed collected in new jersey before I moved to North Carolina and it's one of the greatest garden successes in the test garden.

Portulaca grandiflora 'Samba Peppermint' - Moss Rose

Samba Peppermint is a pink-white bi-color variety of moss rose and finally it's decided to bloom. The picture probably does it no justice but yeah for the sake of showing you what it looks like up close there it is with a picotee red petunia for background contrast.

Capsicum anuum - Purple Bell Pepper

In the upper right side of the pot you see a small plant emerging from beneath the pepper plant. The volunteer is one of three volunteer ground cherry plants that somehow got into that one pot. As far as volunteers go I'm happy to see them given the otherwise poor results from attempts at growing them in numbers.

O. basilicum var. thyrsiflora - Thai Basil

 Thai basil is often met with a bit of unfamiliarity and dare I say suspicion. Most customers don't know what to do with the typically scraggly plants and are unfamiliar with the scent and taste. But this is a picture of a mature specimen, as you can see if there is no competition Thai basil takes on a open bushy form and it's flowers are dark reddish in color while the petals tend to be pink. Humming birds love all forms of basil but are attracted to reds so Thai basil is good for you and them.

 But putting aside this weeks photos as some of you regular readers might know on Saturday the 31st I will be manning the table at the Fayetteville Farmer's market. The market is located on 325 Franklin Street in downtown Fayetteville and runs from 9:00 am through 1:00 pm. The weather is supposed to be quite nice tomorrow and so of course it's a good chance to get out without the risk of a freak downpour.  But enough of that, with out further delay I present this week's plant list.

Southward Skies: A northern guide to southern Gardening

This is the second edition of my book, which was published using data compiled from several years of test garden operations. It’s written to aid gardeners of all skill levels in successful garden methods that are targeted for the south east but had proven to be a valued resource for gardens across the eastern coast. It’s certainly a good gift for that gardener you know or for yourself if you’d like to have a reliable field guide. The book costs $25.00 and we do take checks for this item, you can even have it signed.

Vegetables

2x Eggplant, Casper , 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Pepper, Jalapeno, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Pepper, Habenero, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Pepper, Sweet Banana , 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Pepper, Pimento, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Pepper, Carolina Wonder, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

3x Tomato, Brown Berry, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Tomato, Cherokee Purple, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Tomato, Martino’s Roma, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Tomato, Mexico Midget, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

3x Tomato, Rainbow Cherry Mix, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Tomato, Red & Yellow Currant, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Tomato, Reisotomate, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

1x Tomato, San Marzano, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

Fruits

6x Strawberry- Ozark Beauty, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

Herbs

3x Artemesia, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

4x Basil, Sweet, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Basil, Thai, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Basil, Cinnamon, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Basil, Red Rubin, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Bee Balm, Lambada, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Chives, Common, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Fennel, Black, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

1x Lavender, Munstead, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Mint, Chocolate, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

3x Marjoram, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

4x Oregano, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Parsley, Italian, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

4x Rosemary, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Sage, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

2x Tansy, 3.5” pot ($3.00)

Coming Soon:

Black Hungarian Pepper

Potatoleaf Hillbilly Tomato

Japanese Black Trifele Tomato

Louisiana Long Green Eggplant

Early Black Egg Eggplant

Angel’s Trumpet “Bloomfield”

Passion Vine

This wraps up the last LITFM episode of May and what a month it has been, from drown to drought to drenched and back to drought. Wasn’t the crazy weather supposed to be in March?! As a handy tip most plants require 8 ounces of water a day at a bare minimum to do well so even a little bit helps if it’s too hot or you’re too busy to thoroughly water. With that watering tip in mind tune in next week where we’ll show sneak previews of what you all will see on the Garden tour coming on Sunday June the 8^th.