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Julia Ward
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- Where do you live and garden?
- Northern Florida
- How long have you been growing food?
- forever!
- Dream garden travel destination:
- Thomas Jefferson's home and gardens at Monticello
- Favorite foods:
- eggplant
Comment Wall (9 comments)
- At 7:54am on May 31, 2009,
Anh Collins said…
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- At 6:38am on November 21, 2008,
Julia Ward said…
- Hi Deborah,
I have a 4x8 6" raised bed, my yellow crookneck squash are just setting their first blossoms, my sugar snap peas are full of blossoms, and I have some royal burgundy beans that are about to start setting. Bok choy is about 8" now and I have watermelon radish ready to start picking. Picked the eggplant when it went below freezing.
It's been horribly dry so I've been watering every day for about 15 minutes. And I concocted a little wall of empty cardboard beer boxes around the edges and then stacked cut off empty soda bottles about 3 1/2' high and put two layers of plastic tarp over the whole little garden. It's been a real fight this last week with it going down in the low 20's twice. I only lost two squash leaves.
I haven't had much to show for my efforts in the last year between the bugs and the weather and off timing - but I have some Galapogas Tomato seeds started and giant orange beel peppers.
My goal is to have some kind of vegetable from my garden every day in a least one meal.
Do you know how to grow sweet potatos?
Keep in touch!
blessings,
julia
- At 9:14pm on November 20, 2008,
Deborah Poppell said… - Greetings Julia, was reading through todays blogs so wanted to see how your garden is doing in this cold snap.I wish I had some fresh eggplant, only my greens survived and are thriving. Every evening I cover everything up and uncover it when it warms up. It's so dry had to water today . I was hoping the frost would take out the grasshoppers but.. they are still abundant.
- At 9:19pm on November 13, 2008,
Deborah Poppell said…
- Hi Julia welcome from another Floridian. I live about an hour or so from you in Taylor County just off the gulf coast. I'm fighting grasshoppers around here too big med small and extra large green brown yellow ugly critters. hope the frost this weekend kills them off. Looking forward to getting to know you. Deborah
- At 6:23pm on November 10, 2008,
Beva said… - Oh, my sounds like you'll fit in just fine here!!!
I once got in the way of a big stick of firewood and took it right to the temple... that is my excuse for why I act wacky... or am forgetful... ummm what was I saying???
Welcome Julia!!
- At 3:32pm on November 10, 2008,
Julia Ward said…
- Hi...thanks for stopping by. You could help me go swat grasshoppers. Hard to do with an old hand-me-down wooden cane and an empty beer can. But that's another story! Am so happy to meet some gardening friends. As a transplant to the South this backwards cycle just has me sooooooooo confused. But my droopy eggplants from the spring have now gone nuts and are dripping with eggplants! Whoo who!...blessings, julia www.ablindingheart.com
- At 3:27pm on November 10, 2008,
Ian said… - Hi Julia. Welcome to KGI. I hope you'll find the community interesting. If there is anything I can do please just leave a comment on My Page
- At 1:01pm on November 10, 2008,
Michelle W. Flannery said… - Me again. I was looking over your website - ablindingheart.com. There's a lot there to take in. My computer, server, or something messed up and I had to reboot my system. Couldn't get back to your site after that. Maybe later. But I wanted to say I love "Eloise Ward's Pepper Hash Relish". I made a copy to keep, but I can't figure out where to put it in my recipe file! lol
You and I have a similar writing style, I think, incorporating a story with a recipe. I believe you do it better than I do though. I write, mostly poetry, but I'm keeping a blog now as "someplace to spill my brain." Maybe you'll check out my KGI blog and my blogspot blog and let me know what you think sometime when you have a chance. I'm not looking for free instruction, just general conversation from one writer to another.
I did get to read a little bit of your blog before I had to shut down. I would like to say, regarding your blog (though I realize it is highly affected by pain), remember, sometimes there is plenty to say in the silence.
- At 9:59am on November 10, 2008,
Michelle W. Flannery said…
- Wow! Cool! (existential hippie chick) I might be one, but I'm not sure. If I am, I was a late bloomer to it, and there's still a little bit of "anal" I can't shake loose. If I'm not, I sure wish I was!
Finally! Someone besides me who wants to visit the historic gardens of our own country first! Almost everybody on this site wants to go to Italy! Such romantics! I visited Monticello as a child. I focused on the house and furnishings back then, didn't have the place of mind to appreciate the gardens, but I would love to go back now. Jefferson was a groundbreaker and trend setter for gardening in the USA.
I live and garden in Georgia, east of Atlanta. We have mild winters here, usually. I'm a member of the "Kitchen Gardens, Southern Style" group. We haven't had any discusions recently, but as winter comes on and gardening for most slows down, perhaps there will be things to talk about.
There are great people on this site. I've made several good friends very quickly. There are lots of folks from Florida. Look through the members site and you might find someone you know, or someone you'd like to know. I'd like to add you as a friend if you don't mind.
I enjoy reading folks pages and leaving encouraging comments. I'm a bit cooky sometimes (I appreciate a good sense of humor) but I can also talk serious. Look over my page and read my blogs if you care to. You'll get a better idea of who I am. Not all my blogs are recipes, even though the titles sound like it. Check out some of my "friends" also. Great girls! One is an English professor, another is ex-Air Force, and yet another is a living history book! And there are others. I love them all!
Hope I'll hear back from you. I'd like to know more about the "lightning" thing. I'm going to go check out your website next.
Have a beautiful day!
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