We enjoyed a July 4 visit with family from North Carolina. The day was a not-too hot, humid holiday that let us move around outside some to show off the garden and the horses, then duck back into the AC!
Our happy, sweaty, July 4 tradition ‘under construction’ was transplanting a Pawlonia tree. Good grief! I didn’t know the poor thing had filled the pot. I’m sure it was getting too dry because the big leaves shed water instead of letting the soil in the pot get wet.
So, we justified getting the tractor out to dig a good hole and as a family, we planted the tree! Little Oliver was the biggest help. The tree was a gift from the neighbors. These neighbors drove by as we were planting and stopped to tell us how marvelously their trees are growing.
The Pawlonia joins several redbuds, maple and small cedars moved from the woods that we have put out this year.
There was so much excitement about the visitors coming that RL just had to drive around town. He found produce from the BootHeel and brought home sweet corn and watermelon for the holiday feed!
C. found the first ripe tomato — then, she forgot to eat it! It was an undersized Early Girl, but those plants have been through alot since we didn’t get them into the garden until about a week ago. I hope those Early Girl plants do well. I really like that size. Maybe some of the ‘many’ volunteers we planted will be similar. We were going to cut back this year, but so many nice volunteer tomato plants came up in the worm castings and compost that our plans were changed big time. There is even a healthy tomato plant and watermelon vine buddying up to the little maple tree that we moved from the garden this spring.
