I sent out my last order for Corn last night to Shumway.
Ordered:
Golden Bantam
Golden Jubilee
Golden Queen
Iochief
NK199
Peaches and Cream

Add this to the Zanadoo, Tuxana, Martian Jewel, Silver Queen, and Argent I had already recieved I have enough sweet corn to last a few years.
I will, as always, also plant some field corn but I think I may reduce my plot sizes to 4 by 4.
That way I can , spaced one-foot apart, plant 25 plants in each plot. That should be enough for eating and giving away, assuming no bug/vermin problems.

I will double or may triple seed each spot, so I can thin if I so choose.
I have not determined if I will spend money on new seed potatoes this year but probably will get a few.

Logged into Filaree Farms yesterday, and Just Could Not keep my credit card in my pocket, so:
Yellow Potato Onion
Dutch Red Shallot
Umatilla Russet
Valery Potato
Zoe Potato

Add those to the Dark Red Norland, Dakota Pearl, Yellow Shallot and Elephant Garlic I got a Fleet Farm, my on-line ordering is all but done, but then , I have said that before.
Have Happy Mark's Eve.

St Mark's Eve

24 April – The feast day of St Mark the Evangelist (founder of the Church of Alexandria) falls on 25th April, but there are some interesting folk customs that fall on the eve of the feast.

Divining Who Is To Die
Between the 17th and 19th century it was thought that holding a vigil in a church porch during the hours of 11.00pm through to 1.00am on three successive years would reveal the identities of those due to die and be buried in the churchyard over the coming year as their apparitions (or coffins or headless corpses depending on the source) entered the church in procession. This was a tradition throughout Britain though probably more popular in the North and West. It is no wonder then that there are variations on the tradition. Some accounts say this vigil must be repeated each year of your live instead of just three. Others say the exterior of church had to walked around before the vigil begins and some say that those undertaking the task had to be fasting.

'Tis now, replied the village belle,
St. Mark's mysterious eve,
And all that old traditions tell
I tremblingly believe;

How, when the midnight signal tolls,
Along the churchyard green,
A mournful train of sentenced souls
In winding-sheets are seen.

The ghosts of all whom death shall doom
Within the coming year,
In pale procession walk the gloom,
Amid the silence drear.'

Divining For Future Husbands
St Marks Eve was also the time when young maids would try to use divination to discover the identity of their true love and husband to be. One method was to hang their smock before the fireplace and await for the arrival of an apparition of the man your due to marry to come in and turn it for you.

On St. Mark's eve, at twelve o'clock,
The fair maid will watch her smock,
To find her husband in the dark,
By praying unto good St. Mark.'

In North Kelsey, Lincolnshire young women would visit the Maiden Well on St Marks Eve. 'Girls coming to the spring with the view of divination must walk towards it backwards, and go round it three times in the same manner, each girl, meanwhile, wishing the wish that she may see her destined sweetheart. After the third circle is complete, the inquirer must kneel down and gaze into the spring, in which she will see her lover looking up out of the depths.'
(County Folk-Lore by Gutch and Peacock,1908)

Another method of employed by young women was to place a nut by the heath and whisper the name of the man they believe may be their true love. If the nut jumped from the fire then the love was meant to be.

I got busy yesterday and finally mowed the lawn, at least part of it.
Preen Weed & Feed did a fairly good job and the grass looks good but I have large spots that need seeding.

Put these in the ground yestereday:
Yellow Potato Onion
Dutch Red Shallot
Umatilla Russet
Valery Potato
Zoe Potato
So the garden up North is one-half planted.
Hope to get the corn in , in the next few days then head South and start on that one.

Will uncover the roses up North today and put the leaves on the potatoes.
Good weather, 62 Sunny with a breeze.
Have a Blessed Ascenion Day

RpR said:
Will uncover the roses up North today and put the leaves on the potatoes.

Your potatoes don't grow their own leaves

(Sorry, couldn't help myself... )

Weedwhacker said: Your potatoes don't grow their own leaves

(Sorry, couldn't help myself... )

Got down to the South garden last week-end and finally got the potatoes planted.

I was very surprised that the soil was very dry and very hard when I roto-tilled.
It took me near 3 hours to till , about twice as long as the average.
Put in some:
Zoe
Umatilla Russet
Dakota Pearl
Dark Red Norland
Sarpo Mira
and a managerie of carry-over potatoes from last year.

Uncovered the roses and put the leaf mulch on the potatoes but I did not put as heavy a cover as I normally do so I could only cover one-half of he potato patch.
Prais the Lord -- I did not put a fabric cover over the roses , or bury them under-ground and the mild winter plus comparatively shallow leaf cover meant when I got there -- the roses were already growing out of the leaf cover and all but one were very healthy.
I may or may not take a leaf blower and blow out the remaining leaf debris or I may just put a two to three inch layer of Cocoa Bean hull over it.
Cocoa Bean hulls are $8 dollars cheaper per bag this year and available in several stores.
Last year very high priced and hard to find.

Did not get the Corn planted , as much do-to, not having the urge to work in the garden till sunset like I used to, but also it is an comparative early planting this year compared to quite some years past, so, I can still get it in before June. -- (Also my few remaining friends down home must miss me a lot as they came over to BS a often and stayed for looong bits of time. )
Had a nice rain the past two day so the garden will be a bit nasty to plant in compared to the very dry soil I had three days ago but then que sera, sera.