Another afternoon of tilling and planting has filled most of the garden rows and made the place look considerably more respectable. Nanny and I planted two rows of purple-hull peas, three rows of black-eyed peas, and one row of butterpeas. When I leave work today, I'm going in search of a few jalapeno pepper plants, which should about fill the remaining empty space in the garden.
The purple-hull pea seeds came from Nanny's freezer, remnants of last year's pea crop - straggler pods that dried on the vines. The butterpea seeds were left-overs from a previous year that I found in my freezer. Nanny wondered if we should thaw and/or soak the seeds before planting them. I have heard that freezing seeds before planting them helps them germinate; supposedly, the moisture they release as they thaw helps the process. We'll see.
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