C is for Collards and Cabbage

C is for COLLARDS and CABBAGE, and it's time to plant them

 if you COVER them when it frosts. I spotted these early arrivals 

at Holley's Farm and Garden Center in downtown Selma. 

Linking to ABC WEDNESDAY

and City Daily Photo Blogs

Bringing in the Bedding Plants

It's "N" Week at ABC Wednesday, and the plant NURSERIES in Alabama

 are rapidly bringing in the bedding plants. 

I was downtown at Holley's Farm and Garden Center this week

 when a Bonnie Plant Farm truck delivered flats of flowers and vegetable plants.

 Above, I chose a few pink impatiens for my shade-loving hanging baskets,

 but I would have loved to bring home some vinca, daisies, petunias

 and begonia. Below, a Bonnie Plant Farm employee stocks the outdoor shelves.

Now, I would be remiss not to mention that Dallas County is home to Wright's 

and Bearden's, both excellent NURSERIES too, and we will be heading 

to Plantersville for tomato plants.

Gotta love homegrown tomatoes!

Linking to ABC Wednesday and City Daily Photo Blogs 

All the Colorful Fish (Camera Critters)

I didn't have to go to the bottom of the sea for this photo, just to Holley's Farm & Garden Center.

Holley's sells fish and aquariums and has a nice selection of birds, hamsters and guinea pigs too.

See more Camera Critters HERE.

Harvest at Holley's

Pecan harvests are coming in at Holley's Farm and Garden Center, but a truck farmer parked there one day last week too.

His truck was laden with baskets of apples, oranges, onions and sweet potatoes. I was tempted to buy some but just paid to have my 10 pounds of pecans cracked and shelled. Pecan pies will soon be baking!

Pecan Harvest

Got pecans? You can get them cracked at Holley's Farm and Garden Center in downtown Selma. Here is my batch...loaded in cardboard boxes and an onion sack. The pecans weighed 76 pounds minus a bit for box weight. I paid 25 cents per pound for the cracking and could have sold them to the store for 30 cents per pound. The machines they use crack a pound of pecans per minute.
During these days of the pecan harvest, the place is crowded with folks bringing in and taking out these tasty nuts, which I will finish shelling with the help of my family and freeze for future pecan pies, orange pecan pralines, toasted nuts and as ingredients in sweet potato cake and brownies. Some just might become Christmas gifts.