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Turning over new leaves.

Square Foot Gardening List - http://www.flinet.com/~gallus/sqft.html

Well, the truckload of Oak leaves I got had Fire ants, sandspurs and
palmetto berries in it, and it has taken me this long to clean it all up. I
just got a new load from a neighbor, which is a much cleaner batch of Oak
and Maple leaves mixed with lawn clippings... We have our main leaf drop in
spring as the trees clean house for the New Growth.

I am composting the first batch, with hopes that the sandspur and palmetto
will be decomposed. The ants got boiling water. I also found a television
box full of Soaker hoses and fittings at a yard sale for $20. Looks like
about $300 worth of fittings and pipe still in the packages. I found myself
trying to talk the guy out of selling them, don't ask me why. So I now have
four 4X8 ft beds and one 2X10 under Soaker hose.

So far I have:

	8 squares of Sweet peas on trellis
	18 of broccoli
	18 of tender bush beans
	2 of lettuce
	2 of onion
	4 of slicing tomatoes
	2 of cherry tomatoes
	2 of scallions
	2 of habanero peppers
	4 of Brussels sprouts
	12 of cucumber
	24 of Squash (6 plants)
	32 of early corn

	Everything but the corn, squash and cucumber has produced over what passes
for winter around here. We have at least a salad a day, beans or broccoli
once or twice a week and have made some wonderful salsa.

	Off the SqFt topic, but in the same garden.

	Some may remember me mentioning the crate full of pineapple tops I got from
the grocery produce department about two years ago. I have ~30 plants, we
already ate one pineapple and have about a dozen in various stages of
readiness. I am very pleased about that.

	My three year old peach tree is heavy with fruit, but I doubt if I will get
to eat any. I haven't found a cure for the flies that (supposedly) lay eggs
in the bloom, which inhabit the fruit until it ripens, at which point they
turn into disgusting maggots. Someone told me to spray oil on the blossoms,
but until I find someone who knows exactly what they are and -exactly- how
to treat them I am unwilling to just spray stuff on my tree. My Ag agent is
in the dark, since Peach trees are usually not grown in this area. I have a
new variety that only requires 40 hours of chill, and there are few who even
know about such thing yet.

	I still neglect to post pictures, but I have a new WEB page (NOTE: -Not-
the one below, I just got it today and don't know the URL yet.) so maybe I
will populate it with some recent ones.



`    0****************  Bill and Aula DeWitt  *****************0
     *    By earnest prayer and living faith great             *
     *    victories will be gained.                            *
     0**** http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Atlantis/8868/  ****0


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