Shortly after arriving at our winter home in Florida, we discovered that Pensacola has a year round farmers’ market that runs every Saturday in the Martin Luther King Plaza downtown on Palafox Street. It has become part of our weekend routine to stop by the Palafox Market to pick up locally grown produce and baked goods to add to our…
This year, in addition to growing herbs, strawberries and tomatoes in our three little square foot gardens, I’ve been experimenting with some container gardening. I have two large planters that sit on either side of our garage door. I usually fill those with some kind of tall grass in the middle surrounded by flowering annuals. This year the tall grass…
It’s been months since I posted an Independence Days update. And this would be a very long post if I tried to detail everything that we’ve accomplished in that time. Instead I’m going to tell you about how our sweet potato experiment turned out. Back in June, when I brought home my four little sweet potatoes slips I wasn’t at…