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UPBEAT TIMES, INC. • APRIL 2017 • 11 Sweets Scents of the Growing Garden by Kimberly Childers • kimberlychilders@att.net


roquette in French, for the peppery zip their leaves and flowers impart to salads.


Santa Rosa, CA. ~ The unmistak- able, evocative scent of freesias, filling my romantic head and en- tire being with Spring! Because of the continuing rain, everything is growing really fast, thunderstorms rumble. . .Remembering the arch- es in Monet’s Giverny garden, in a matter of months fragrant roses climbing their way up. . .up. . .up. I hope you have gotten some spe- cial seeds to plant either in pre- pared ground, flats or pots. It’s a very exciting time for the gardener with seeds sprouting, blossoms blooming and sweet scents waft- ing in the air. I’m excited to start my collection of Renee’s Garden or- ganic seeds. I really love their commit- ment to testing and doing numerous tri- als in their gardens in Fulton, Califor- nia improving the quality and vigor of their seeds resulting in superb, tasty har- vests.


I’m planting big pots, I mean big,


of Chantenay Carrots, Short Stuff, that will be perfectly delicious. I’m also planting Italian Arugula,


Weather means more when you have a garden. Tere’s nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how


it is soaking in around your


green beans. Marcelene Cox


diversity, mingling more herbs and flow- ers with vegetables in the gardens. For that tantalizing chocolate fragrance I’m planting Heirloom Chocolate Daisies along winding sunny pathways.


The


small yellow flowers of this native will be perfect for pollinators and beneficial insects. Good drainage is so im- portant for most plants


unless they want to be growing in a bog. Mix very tiny pebbles or horticultural grit into your planting mix to ensure excel- lent drainage. For one of my tripod trellises I’m planting heir- loom Nasturtiums, Climbing Phoenix. Their outrageous split, almost ‘pinked’ flower petals in gor- geous colors will be sexy to add to sum- mer salads and I will definitely save their seeds for next year, another location, an-


other trellis, another spring! Oregon Giant Snow peas will soon be twining and growing up an-


Their sweet unmistakable crunch is hard to resist. Renee’s Five Color Radish Mix called ‘Garden Party’ is perfect to grow for slicing and mixing in salads and certainly enticing for young gardeners to grow as well!


How is it going in your ‘hood’, your garden, your friends and neighbors? Oozing over the top of the fence next door there is a pleth- ora of amazing native blue Ceono- thus blooming and back over the fence my gardens are filled with foamy oceans of delicate blue For- get-Me-Nots, bright yellow daf- fodils popping up here and there. Stunning! My sweet neighbor has shared some Geranium starts from Annie’s Annuals with me too. An- other ‘shout out’ blue called Bill


This year I’m creating


other trellis/tripod. They are such delicious, succulent peas it’s hard to stop eating them on the vine.


Wallis, Geranium pyrenaicum, an elegant and most welcomed self- seeding perennial.


sure


In your garden be to


create a few


secret places for crea- tures loosing habitats. Do Not Disturb! Start with a little pile of rot- ting twigs and branches, woody leaf mulch spill- ing over which will be a perfect ‘forgotten’, partially shaded spot for squiggly salamanders and their associates. Research habitats and make quiet parts of the


garden sanctuaries for threatened songbirds, disappearing mammals, butterflies and bees, helping to compensate for the loss of precious habitats humankind has sadly sto- len away and recklessly continues. Grow and harvest microgreens; ... continued on page 20


Sports Trivia


The first women’s gymnastics instruction in the United States was given at Mount Holyoke College in 1862.


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Olympic gymnastics competition for women was introduced at the 1928 games.


Larissa Latynina of Russia won 18 Olympic gymnastic medals, thus setting an Olympics record for women: nine gold medals, five silver, and four bronze between 1956 and 1964.


Olga Korbut of the Soviet Union inspired thousands of girls to take up gymnastics after she won two gold medals and one silver medal in the 1972 Olympics. She was later named Female Athlete of the Year.


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