Gardening in April

Gardening in April on Hummingbird Hill

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I have a really strong desire to have a garden this year.  I just feel that with the economy the way it is I will be glad we did.  The economy isn't the only reason.  I an tired of eating packaged and overly processed foods that are laden with chemicals.  Our health will benefit from this too.  I ordered from Heirloom Seed this year.  I wanted to be able to save my seed to plant each year.  I also ordered some from Burpee.

These are my tomato, strawberry and marigold transplants.  I went ahead and bought plants for this year because my seed did not come in in time to start them from seed.

 Here are my cabbage plants, cucumber and sunflowers.  I planted 4 o'clock seed where the sunflowers were planted but they did not come up.

These are some of the containers that we are using.  My son-in-law got these for me from where he works.  They are 55 gallon barrels that we split and drilled drainage holes in.  I hope these work for some of the crops any way.  I hope Mr. Hummingbird will till up a larger area in the yard for some corn, squash and pink eyed purple hull peas.