April 21

I used to have a really large garden at the old house on Joan St. in north Denver. I grew all kinds of flowers, vegetables, pumpkins for Halloween and rhubarb for pies. I had 2 big compost piles and made black gold out of the household scraps, egg shells, coffee grounds and rotten vegies from King Soopers. I would keep the seeds from the previous years plants and replant them the following year. I had one batch of tomato seeds that lasted about 10 years. I also had amazing yields from tomatoes and peppers, and no one knew my secret. Epsom salts and sheep manure. To a tomato, it's a strawberry margarita served up by a handsome man with big arms. But I digress. On April 21 at 4:30 p.m. I should have been working on homework, but I was putting some of my geraniums outside to begin hardening off for the summer. A much smaller garden now, but less bugs. April 21, 2009