Planting time again

Georgia gives us three distinct planting times each year. We are now in the third part of our planting and it should go to frost. That is if it is a normal fall and the spiders are wrong.

You see G-d has instilled in spiders, bugs, and animals the ability to prepare their homes for the coming season. This year, the spiders have been building extensive webs like they did last summer. The only difference is that they started earlier, which could very well mean that our fall and winter will be colder than last year's.

The hot summer follows a cold winter many times. When you have lived in an area for a long time, you experience seasons differently than people who have recently come to our state.

That being said, we should still have three months to grow more vegetables and I have harvested over 165 pounds of veggies this summer. That is a good amount for any gardener and I am extremely happy. I will probably break 200 pounds of fruit and hopefully closer to 300.

I have replanted beans, squash, tomatoes, cucumbers, and I still want to add sugar snap peas, broccoli, some more tomatoes, nasturtiums, and a few other things. I have found peat pellets work enormously well and a way better method to start a transplant than the peat pots I paid so dearly for. A peat pellet cost about five cents and the seeds as much as ten or twenty cents a piece. That makes a transplant a total of thirty cents tops and that beats the fool out of three and a half dollars a piece from the local Home Depot or Lowes.

We have been extremely unhappy with the plants getting root bound in peat pots. I was amazed that the peat pots did not break down when they were planted and realized that the peat pot formula to make them has been changed so that they hold up longer for sale. My oldest daughter always says she prefers the old and inferior to the new and superior. Boy do I agree.

This is another one of those things that have to be watched and it will hit our list of changes that need to be made. Experimentation and change are the rule of thumb when you have a garden.