…that the garden was ever filled with overflowing green growth!
I shared a picture and a post of the 2023 spring Grocery Row Garden over at Patreon yesterday.
We’re transplanting lots of trees and shrubs into pots right now, taking some of what grew last year and getting it ready for our spring sales. Since we’re launching a booth at the Palafox Market in Pensacola on March 2nd, we’re scrambling to get our stock ready to go. There is so much to do! We had a hard time keeping our nursery stocked when we were selling at the flea market, and the Palafox Market has much higher traffic.
This is make-or-break time for our nursery. We gotta pay for our plant addictions somehow.
Yesterday I also bought about 100lbs of seed potatoes, which need to be planted soon. And the yam beds need to be created. And we have meat birds arriving in the mail in a week.
St. Isidore pray for us!
It’s February, and it’s go time.
Also, I have now gone without smoking for an entire month. And no alcohol in 24 days. It’s been an interesting experiment. My mind is definitely running faster and my energy levels are higher – which I need at this time of year.
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Best of blessings getting everything done. It’s definitely about crunch time to propagate nursery stock for sure. Trying to get our potatoes planted too. Some done but plenty more to plant.
Good luck with all the projects.
Im thinking about putting our seed potatoes in today, but with the rain coming I don’t know. I might do a 3rd of them and experiment.
Ive never had luck with potatoes but i learned i need to plant them earlier in the year. Hooefully this is the year.
Luckily we have true yams and sweet potatoes just in case!
I usually dont leave my homestead but I’ll try to come buy products from you in Pensacola.
Do you have a list of what you’ll be selling?
No list yet, officially, but we’ll have potato mint, fruit trees, wild rabbiteye blueberries, mulberries, coffee, lemongrass and more.
Awesome. Ive been building my north florida food forest/grocery row garden for 2 years and this will be a great opportunity to add to it. The annuals help with the “long wait” phase.
Awesome job on the no smoking or drinking!!!!
Thanks. Now if I could only quit caffeine!