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***Step #2***(never happened)

***Step #2***(never happened)

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** The Garden’s Step #2..never happened….. …..we got the dirt fluffed….. …..we got the heirloom seeds….. …..the spirit & enthusiasm was definitively there…but the body wasn’t….. There was no point in planting a garden…without the paneled fencing being up….. …..because all I would be doing is…planting nice seeds…to grow tender shoots…for the deer and goats to floss their teeth with….. …..(we all know it’s not the deer…it’s the goats)….. …..(it’s always the goats)….. And…there…

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~~~Rooting Yams~~~

~~~Rooting Yams~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** My younger daughter has a horticultural job….. …..she grows vegetables to sell….. A few years ago…she attended the Florida School for the Deaf & the Blind and graduated from their vocational college with a Certificate of Horticultural Management….. *****(Florida School For The Deaf & The Blind and First Coast College Information)***** As a result…we get some interesting home projects….. Currently she (we) is/are sprouting sweet potatoes on the back of the kitchen sink……..

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~~~Gardening—Step #1~~~

~~~Gardening—Step #1~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Maybe this isn’t Step #1…maybe researching & buying the seeds was….. Maybe the garden won’t happen this Spring….. …..but discing was a necessary next step….. …..and ground preparations….. I’ve figured out where I want the garden….. I already got the welded metal panels to (hopefully) deter the deer…the chickens and………….the goats….. Our friend Ralph came over with his wonderful/ancient tractor…with it’s wonderful/ancient accoutrements….. I thought he was just going to disc the ground…

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***Heirloom Seeds***

***Heirloom Seeds***

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** My younger daughter has a part-time job using her horticultural background (which she learned from attending the Florida School for the Deaf & Blind in St. Augustine). She and I also decided that we needed to augment her new job by growing vegetables & fruit here at home….. …..to that effect…..we decided to use the leaky/old/rusty water tanks that were previously…

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