grace grits and gardening

ramblings from an arkansas farm girl

photo session with a garden hose

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I had a photo session in the garden yesterday with my photographer/gardener friend Jerry (Jmac Images). I needed a head shot photo for various blogger events (or so I’m always told), so I bit the bullet and “posed”. Awkward for me. Just ask Jerry.

Until I put on gardening gloves and grabbed the hose. Then it was fun.

Here are a couple of my favorites.

Grace Grits and Gardening - Playing in the water

Talya Boerner -POP sign

I love the way Jerry captured the garden in the background, the Promise of Peace sign, the blue sky.

Watering my tomatoes…

grace grits tomatoes - my plot at Promise of Peace

It was a fun afternoon!

Plus, I discovered another ripe strawberry. Bonus.

grace grits strawberry

Grace Grits and Gardening

Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

“Water is the driving force in nature.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

Goodbye Calendar Girl

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goodbye Miss May

via MorgueFile

 

May is almost over. It was an exciting month for me because (in case you somehow missed it) I was “Blogger of the Month” at Arkansas Women Bloggers. As Calendar Girl, I was given free rein and my topics ranged from that 64-pack of crayons we all remember from childhood to the decline of rural America.

Yes, a random peep into how my brain works.

My last feature post as Miss May went live yesterday. I hope you’ll check it out. I’m talking about trending topics like #WhatJayZSaidToSolange. Sort of.

If you missed any of my Miss May posts, I’ve listed each below for easy access.

If you’ve been following along, thank you, thank you very much. Miss May has left the building.

Grace Grits and Gardening

Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

Miss May Grace Grits and Gardening

“Lots of people go mad in January. Not as many as in May, of course.” – Karen Joy Fowler

Musical Pairing:

Calendar Girl, Neil Sedaka

 

The true story of my garden in May.

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This is a true story. Non-fiction. My garden in May is growing exactly like the seed packages promised. This truth shocks me each day. Always before, the idea of a garden filled with a bounty of vegetables, growing according to the seed package instructions, was purely fictional.

Mythical even.

My Serrano, jalapeño and bell peppers all seem to be thriving. Look at this bell pepper. It’s the size of my fist. It will be roasting on John’s Big Green Egg today.

Bell Pepper

My cucumbers are coming on! I plan to try my hand at canning these.

cucumbers in my community garden plot:) yay.

My first tomato harvest. These are Romas.

My first tomato harvest

And check out my celery. It really looks like celery.

growing celery!

Last week I harvested the last of my onions, a few more radishes, added fertilizer and I’ve been topping off my Ollas every two-three days.

I planted okra seeds and they sprouted in three days. Wow. True story.

okra sprouts

Grace Grits and Gardening

Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

Seed Quote

Musical Pairing:

When You’re Smiling – Doris Day

 

Food. Farm. Garden. Life.

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