Monday found Hubby and I headed to the Garden Center to return the incorrect “Dirt” I had purchased on Friday. When we got to the shop the clerk argued with Hubby about this being the “right stuff” and Hubby corrected him. After all Hubby farmed his land in southern New Hampshire for over 20 years! He also is a voracious reader. He knows good dirt from bad dirt!
I stood listening, not saying a word, and allowed Hubby to “educate” this man! After a few minutes the clerk relented and we got the correct “soil” to start my seedlings. Two bags of the correct soil for the price of one bag of bad dirt the clerk sold me! I will be planting my seeds on Tuesday morning. I’ll get up and have breakfast and then put on my dirtiest clothes and plant seeds. Oh, the joy of working with the correct soil!
After getting the “soil”, we stopped for lunch and then headed to Loews, where I got 2 Ichiban Eggplant, plants and some eggplant seeds.
Here is an Ichiban I grew two years ago, when it was just starting to grow.
I love eggplant! And the Ichiban is Japanese Eggplant, which is long and thin and sweet! Hubby splurged and spent $20.00 on a new Macintosh tree. You see, this past winter our newspaper girl slid off our driveway and demolished the Macintosh tree along the way!
Lots of spring work around the Dackel Princess House and green house.
Still no news on Anneliese, and this is a very good thing. I hope she will go into heat on schedule at the END of May. Surely, by then the passengers displaced by the Volcanic cloud, will be safely home and there will be a seat for Anneliese and me on a flight to Germany.
Anneliese and me when we went to Germany a year ago!
I love eggplant… enjoy your planting..
You know, I´ve never tasted eggplant before. But you make it sound so good. I´m glad you have planting weather and hope it all grows well.
Have a great day Maribeth!
Hi Mom,
Sorry I missed your call last night; I will give you a buzz when I head out of work this evening! Enjoy your planting today! 🙂
Love you,
Mandy
Sounds like your garden is off to a good start 🙂
Love Eggplant!! 🙂 Love YOU too, Mel
That’s funny we had the same program for tuesday, working in the garden, lol ! I mowed the grass (it’s not much) Mr.G. can’t do it anymore because of his back and then I went to buy Petunias and plant them in my pots, but they told me I should come back next week it’s still a little too cold and there might be night frost. So I wait !
I love eggplant but I don’t believe I’ve had Japanese eggplant – although my eggplant is long and purple – almost black purple. How would I know. I’m also curious about this soil thing? I had no idea there was right and WRONG soil! NO WONDER none of my stuff grew! I bet I had WRONG soil! What kind of soil is GOOD soil for growing seeds? I KNOW this is my problem… I have never gotten ANYTHING to grow from seed! DO tell!
I am hopelessly behind and will never get caught up – so please forgive me for just starting here and not really catching up… I have SO many people to visit! 🙂
I am so NOT an eggplant person… (no surprises here hey!)!!
Good to see that you got the right ‘dirt’, but if I may correct you, its ‘soil’!!! But that is the greenkeepr/gardener/agronomist in me now! 😉
Happy planting!