This coming weekend, the third annual
Bonne Terre Garden Fair will be held at the historic Southdown Plantation in Houma Lawn and garden enthusiasts will be showing off their plants, vendors will be selling their lawn/garden-related merchandise, and experts will educating us. I enjoy lawns and gardens, so I expect that's where I will most likely be, this coming weekend. The
LSU AgCenter is responsible for the program.
As is illustrated in
LSU's Vegetable Planting Guide, gardening is done a rather differently down here from what I was used to, growing up in the intermountain west at 6,800 ft elevation where it wasn't that uncommon for fences to disappear from the depth of the snowpack in the winter. Here, there are fall planted winter crops (cabbage, lettuce, onions, peas, potatoes, etc.), winter-planted spring crops (vegetables that most folks would plant in the early spring (beets, broccoli, carrots, lettuce, etc.), and spring-planted summer crops (beans, corn, eggplant, melons, okra, peppers, squash, tomatoes, etc.). While I was weeding in the garden, Judy grabbed a camera. You can see that the spring-planted crops are progressing well...and so are the weeds.
This coming weekend, the third annual Bonne Terre Garden Fair will be held at the historic Southdown Plantation in Houma Lawn and garden enthusiasts will be showing off their plants, vendors will be selling their lawn/garden-related merchandise, and experts will educating us. I enjoy lawns and gardens, so I expect that's where I will most likely be, this coming weekend. The LSU AgCenter is responsible for the program.
As is illustrated in LSU's Vegetable Planting Guide, gardening is done a rather differently down here from what I was used to, growing up in the intermountain west at 6,800 ft elevation where it wasn't that uncommon for fences to disappear from the depth of the snowpack in the winter. Here, there are fall planted winter crops (cabbage, lettuce, onions, peas, potatoes, etc.), winter-planted spring crops (vegetables that most folks would plant in the early spring (beets, broccoli, carrots, lettuce, etc.), and spring-planted summer crops (beans, corn, eggplant, melons, okra, peppers, squash, tomatoes, etc.). While I was weeding in the garden, Judy grabbed a camera. You can see that the spring-planted crops are progressing well...and so are the weeds.
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