Garden Report and Other News

We just missed out on a killing frost last week. Friends that live 10 miles away lost most of their garden. It got down to 33, but the conditions weren't right for a frost.

We harvested our clove garlic last week and Caleb peeled and separated them today. The elephant garlic still isn't ready to harvest. We have been eating spinach and lettuce for a few weeks. We are going to have a hot spell over the next few days (low-to-mid 90s) and hope that they don't bolt. Ate our first broccoli head yesterday. I noticed that the cabbage looper has found a few of the bushes. Our onions are starting to bulb. We have been eating green onions for a while. We have several squash growing on the plants right now. I guess this means that the squash borer will find our garden in the near future. Joshua planted some pole beans beside the corn stalks today. I have never grown beans up corn, but have heard it's a viable way of saving space...so we'll see. The tomato plants have blossoms as do the green pepper plants. There are buds but no blooms on the potatoes.

We got "lucky" this year. We usually have either a killing frost around Easter or extremely hot weather...which does in the cool-weather crops (not that I consider my small garden having crops).

I was reading in Genesis the other day about the time when Abraham lied to Pharaoh about Sarah being his sister. After they left Egypt it was said that Abraham was extremely wealthy. This was because he had cattle, gold, and silver. I don't have any cattle and very little gold and silver. As a matter-of-a-fact, I do have a little stock in a gold mining company that is influential in the genocide that is occurring in the Congo. If that is true, then I will be selling that particular stock.

As food prices continue to go up and up and up, I think it prudent to consider growing some of our own food. The cattle (gold and silver) that Abraham owned represented his ability to feed himself, his family, and those in need.

The trailer "house" that one of our AWANA children lived in burned this past Friday. He was at his grandmother's house when it happened. His mother got out okay, but they lost all of their worldly possessions.

Time for the Abrahams of our church to come up with some substantial help for the needy! Maybe I can sell that stock and help a family in need who lives in our little town!