Well, Janie, if it's the one we just gave you last month it's "El Freda"... If it's the one I gave you a while back it's "Kohmo Shekebu"...

The "El Freda" is an old azalea that the P-Vine's mentor, Barbara Alexander, who lives in Charlotte has in her garden... It was grown from a cutting of a cutting... Who hybridized it is unknown but it goes back some 40 years... Yes, it is a Japonica...

As for taters, I just cut 'um up and grow them in mounded rows... I don't plant 'um from the top... Once I pull up the mounts I the dirt is loose and I just stick 'um in the sides of the mounds and that's it other than straw mulch to each side of the mound to keep in moisture and keep out weeds... We grew two 35 foot rows last year and got about 200 pounds of taters from them... Very good year...

Reckong we'll have to wait until after the rains to put in our spinich, lettuce and beet seeds... Asparagus is coming up nicely... Maybe we'll get a few searvings out of it this year... Last year was it's first year and we got only one good serving outta it...

Well, off to the salt mine...

B~