Some of the biggest, most beautiful blooms in my garden aren’t flowering perennials, but vegetable plants. The squash and zucchini flowers not only catch my interest, but keep the local bee population busy all day long. There’s plenty of nectar to go around, and the bees have to wipe their feet before exiting to dislodge [...]
The vegetable garden is doing very well. I am really pleased that I decided to put it on the opposite side of the house this year. The amount of sunlight on that side makes all the difference. This weekend, I harvested another couple of zucchini, a few squash and a few cucumbers. I grilled the [...]
We have a small yard and a small garden, but I love to take walks through the garden and take close looks at the plants I have growing there. There’s always something new that keeps me interested and reminds me why I started gardening in the first place – I enjoy growing things! Yeah, there’s [...]
It is always exciting when our vegetable garden starts producing. After a few failures in the past two summers due to pests, disease and/or uncooperative weather, it is encouraging to see the plants bursting forth with tiny veggies that will continue to grow into harvest-able crops. I’ll get to those mini-veggies in a minute, but [...]
The new garden bed, measuring 4′x8′ has run out of room. As I thought would happen, the melon vines have monopolized the existing space in the garden, leaving nowhere to go but UP. With a little bit of expediency this weekend, I fashioned a homemade trellis using 2×3′s and nylon cord. Luckily, I planted right [...]
