A Beautiful Surprise

A wonderful surprise Friday night - The timing was perfect - Turn up the sound, then click the play button to see what it was.

 

 Thursday we planted 5# of red seed potatoes. The package said we can expect a harvest of 50 to 75 pounds of potatoes. They just looked so good on the package.

 
  And when you plant potatoes, you must plant onions - white, red and yellow onions.  My Handsome Prince wanted to plant green onions, but i assured him that we only had onion sets for white, red and yellow.




  The funny thing is, because we mostly eat low carb, we rarely eat potatoes.  In spite of that, apparently, we thought we needed more.  So....on Friday we planted white potatoes, and more yellow onions, and the first radish crop.
 
  Trimmed trees in the front yard, and planted Corn Flowers and Gaillarida. 
  The Red Stick Dogwoods are so pretty in the winter, and the birds just love the berries all year long.

We truly are practicing sustainable farming.  The Gaillarida seed originally came from Washington's Mt. Vernon - My kind of souvenir.  This is the third year that I have been able to plant seed saved from those originals.  We purchased the white seed potatoes four years ago, and planted what was left over each year.

Saturday, planted roses into pots for a couple reasons.  It is still freezing every night and last years roses really have not started growing yet, so I can't tell which ones made it through the winter.  The plan is to replace any that did not survive with the new ones.  I love Tea Roses, but they seldom live in our cold winter climate.  So, I just treat them as annuals and if some are still alive in the Spring, it is just a bonus.  We found roses at Menard's for $5, and later for $3.50, and they are ready to grow, as you can see.  They should be great in about six weeks, when it warms up.

This one is going across the walk from a pink florabunda.  Perhaps, with an arbor, they will meet in the middle.  :)

That's all for this week - Tomorrow is the Lord's Day.......