Harvest is just about DONE! As of today, we have all of the Byzantines, butter and eggs, grand primos, twin sisters (April beauty), spider lilies, oxblood lilies, campernelles, Texas stars, and Texas tulips out of the ground. This is a picture of the pole barn after I went through the last crates about half an hour ago.



Tomorrow there are 11 garden club and master gardener volunteers coming to the farm to work. What a help that will be. They have been a help all week. Over the next few days, I will spotlight some of the people that have been such a large help. I have no doubt that I could not have finished the week without them. Off the top of my head I would like to thank Dave and Marti, Tom and Kala (and of course Grace!), Holly (queen of the envelope room), Dale (The Plant Manager), Linda Simmons (who along with Pat organized the help), and last but not least, the Heinz Girls: Pat, Shirley, and Lynne.

Who, you might ask, are the Heinz Girls? Legend has it they were once in the same Master Gardner training group. They connected in such a deep way that each of them realized there was a special bond. In an effort to show this bond, they fell upon the idea of becoming blood sisters. One definitely did not like blood, and when that one happened to excuse herself from the table at a restaurant for a moment, the others quickly grabbed the ketchup bottle and put some on their fingers. They managed to scare the one when she arrived, and in the process found a way to become something much deeper than blood sisters...they became Heinz girls.Still more to do tomorrow, even though there is so much more to write. My sister in law brought me pizza roles! She also left her sunglasses here. I don't think she liked my sunglass display option. There are so many fun items floating around the cabin. In the background is my grandpa's old radio. I hope this picture allows you to enjoy the sunset and the clouds as much as I did.