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AdventureMan’s Garden

It’s all about rebirth, transformation, and new life. Gardening is a discipline, and a spiritual endeavor. You can plant the seeds, you can tend the process, but only God can make those seeds grow and flourish.

AdventureMan is so happy. He loves his garden. No, he doesn’t love weeding (does anyone?) but he loves the feeling of satisfaction when he looks at a formerly weedy bed and sees that it looks great now. His moonflowers are starting to bloom, his tomatoes are starting to ripen, we are using 8 different kinds of fresh basil, he has bounteous peppers, enough to share generously – life is good.

Tomatoes and more tomatoes!

An abundance of jalepenos!

Pear tomatoes coming along:

This is one of his butterfly gardens. We have all kinds of butterflies coming through, laying eggs, and hatching into butterflies – Monarchs, Gulf Fritillaries, Sulpher, Brown Beauties, many that he can name that I can’t!

He has been accepted into the Master Gardener’s program and is about to dazzle me with all his gardening expertize! 🙂

September 13, 2012 - Posted by | Adventure, Aging, Arts & Handicrafts, Beauty, Community, Cultural, Food, Gardens, Living Conditions, Pensacola

2 Comments »

  1. Pear Tomatoes , thats a new type i havent seen before ? It looks like a hybrid plant .

    The other intersting thing is AdventureMan growing all those veggies in pots !!! ,Well done .

    daggero's avatar Comment by daggero | September 13, 2012 | Reply

  2. It’s not like Kuwait, but it’s not like the northern USA, either. If you plant your tomatoes in spring, as soon as the temperatures hit above 70°F every night, they stop setting fruit. AdventureMan started all these from seed in mid-late June, and they are thriving 🙂 The soil is very poor, very sandy. He’s having good luck with the pots. Pear tomatoes are just a shape, I’ve had the ones like grape tomatoes, and they are delicious. 🙂

    intlxpatr's avatar Comment by intlxpatr | September 13, 2012 | Reply


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