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Most of the seedlings are Lady Bender's annual flowers. I started corn and cucumbers and the tomatoes were purchased as small starts at a small nursery
So far this week, I've got 2 rows of leeks,about 100 of the total, transplanted, as well as sowed about 10’ of leek seed to fill up the space. Also planted 80 each white and red onion sets; 8o Georgia sweet onion transplants, and a few feet of yellow Utah sweet onion seed. The transplants are started in the fall, then stored over winter, and sold in the spring, to adjust for day length.
Last, but not least, I put in small plots of Swiss chard and Toy-Choi. This was all done in between repairing the electric fence; getting my tractor running with the help of a neighbor—we had to pull-start it; and attending public meetings to fight the VA’s attempt to close our local hospital & domiciliary facility.
Battle Mountain Sanitarium (now part of the Veterans Affairs Black Hills Health Care System) was part of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, which provided care for Union veterans after the Civil War. It was the first and only National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers built solely as a short-term sanitarium for veterans with lung or respiratory problems, not as a long-term home. Unlike the other National Home branches, veterans went to Battle Mountain Sanitarium for brief intensive treatment. Upon completion of their treatment, they were transferred to another National Home branch. Battle Mountain Sanitarium opened in 1907, offering veterans a complete array of services including plunge baths and an amusement hall. Located in the town of Hot Springs, South Dakota, the Sanitarium, made from local pink sandstone, rises above the town on a bluff to the northeast of the resort section of the town at an elevation of 3400 feet. A majority of the buildings predate 1930, and many of them are still used for their original purposes. The curving road system that winds through the facility is also original. The National Cemetery is located in the eastern section of the campus. ... . (Photos at link; it is listed as both a National Treasure, and a National Landmark.
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/veterans_affairs/Battle_Mountain_Sanitarium.html
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Most of the seedlings are Lady Bender's annual flowers. I started corn and cucumbers and the tomatoes were purchased as small starts at a small nursery
I hope you all are successful in preserving and keeping this VA facility going.
You sure have got a lot done this week. I am still figuring out the onions, leeks, and garlic stuff. Mostly I do the garlic, because it doesn’t compete with other crops, since I plant it in the fall and harvest mid May or June.