It's been a little while since I've written a blog post. With Larry's two trips to the hospital for pneumonia and stents in his heart in January and then back to the hospital three weeks later for a stroke, I just haven't been motivated to write. He's doing better now. His stroke could have been so much worse than it was. Luckily, I think we got to the hospital in time.
We are back in the swing of gardening. Attending home shows, expos and beginning this weekend, farmers markets. I call Larry, "the Energizer Bunny." No matter his health issues, heart, stroke or the macular degeneration that he developed last year, he "just keeps going and going. He loves Garden Anywhere Box and loves to talk about the boxes.
I finally feel inspired to add to my blog. I felt inspired to write post about fun things to grow in the garden.
Once you realize that you can be a successful gardener, you will start to get excited about gardening. Not only will you want to grow tomatoes, but you'll want to see what else you can grow.
The pictures below are of things that I have grown or will grow this year.
A couple of years ago, I grew Strawberry popcorn. It's cute little red ears of corn. Let it dry, remove it from the cob and make your own popcorn.
You can find Strawberry corn at Baker Creek Heirloom Seed.
Bear Paw corn is something that I want to try this year. I got seeds at Cherrygal.com, but can't seem to open the link today.Seed Savers also sells the seeds. Read the interesting history behind the seed on their website.
I first read about Cucamelons in a post by James Wong, a gardener in England. I thought they looked like fun to grow, but wanted to find seeds available in America if possible. I found a place in AZ called Terroir Seeds. They have all kinds of fun seeds. Check out their website.
Cucamelon looks like a miniature watermelon, but tastes like a cucumber. Wouldn't these be perfect in salads?
I also wanted to try to grow cotton. We went to the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture several times last year. They had a nice little garden out in front of the building. One of the things they were growing was cotton. I thought that would be fun to grow as a decoration. I found some seeds from Reimer Seeds. They have some other fun stuff like sugar cane. I'm going to try that, too.
I grew Cosmic Purple carrots last year. Baker Creek Heirloom Seed has those seeds and also the Strawberry corn seeds. Purple carrots! How fun is that! And they taste really good! The picture to the left is an experiment that I tried last year. We sell a Per-PET-ual Pet dish. This hooks into our watering system and allows you pet to have fresh water. I wondered if I put in a clay pot, would the water wick up into the pot so that I didn't have to worry about watering. It did! I grew carrots and I didn't have to worry about watering the pot every day. Yay!
What fun things to you want to grow this year?
