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 [...]
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 veggie garden seems like it has grown by leaps and bounds the past couple of weeks. Here is a shot taken two weeks ago, followed by a recent shot: That’s what a few batches of compost tea will do! The zucchini (upper right of the bed) is already producing. The flowers are always so [...]
Last week, I wrote about the new garden bed I built on the north side of the house. Although I’ve been growing veggies in raised beds in other parts of the yard for the past couple of years, I decided that I needed to do something different this season. The main reason for building a [...]
Both of them looking at me like, “Uh, do you MIND?!” The cornflowers are going gangbusters in the wildflower bed. After the flower petals dry and fall off, the flower base takes on this golden glow in the sunlight. I tried to capture it on film, but it doesn’t quite convey how shiny it was. [...]
