I should buy another digital camera. The little Kodak I bought from the pawn shop got wet and eats batteries. Then I would have to buy a flashcard and I lost the last one when I was using it at the uptown library. I have lost five cellphones in the past 5 years. I've also forgotten how to upload images into these message threads. Maybe I should stick with just words for a time.
I planted sugar snap peas this morning and afternoon. Not many, maybe 400. You plant them so close together, 1 to 2 inches, the space goes just like that. I used the soil inoculant in granular form. Just shake it into the furrow.
I bought two varieties: Amish Snap Pea from Seed Saver's Exchange, which has to be trellised, and Sugar Sprint from Johnny's in Maine. I also bought some trellis material from Johnny's. It's basically a polyprolene netting, 6.5 by 15. That size is easy for one person to set up. I hammered in four 5 foot aluminum poles then added a pole to each one, securing it with electrical tape.
Johnny's says sugar snap peas in the fall aren't as sweet as the spring peas. We'll see. The soil temperature is still above 80. That storm that moved from the Gulf left an inch or so on Friday and cooled down the soil. The days are getting noticeably shorter now and the cool down starts earlier in the evening.
I've been selling all I grow to the Asbury inside the Dunhill Hotel in uptown Charlotte. Soon, I'll sell to the Mariott uptown. The pastry chef at the Dunhill quit and went to work for the Block and Grinder in Huntersville. She studied in France. Just recently she won the 2016 North Carolina Pastry Chef of the Year using homegrown NC peanuts.
She also volunteers for a group helping young immigrants enter the culinary profession. I will one day help these young folks in a garden plot they maintain on Central Avenue.
Tomorrow, Labor Day, I will till and seed spinach, lettuce, carrot, radish.
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