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 [...]
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 [...]
I have finished transplanting all of the veggies for the spring garden. In my little plot, I have 2 tomatoes (celebrity and early girl), 2 bell pepper (green, cal wonder), 2 jalapeno, 2 habanero, 2 cucumber, 1 squash (yellow crookneck), 1 zucchini, 1 watermelon (crimson) and 1 cantaloupe. Right now there is quite a bit [...]
It is hard to believe that it has been four months since my last post. Life has been really busy. The holidays, the loss of my grandfather, getting ready for the baby who’s scheduled to arrive at the end of May … so many things and very little time for gardening. Good thing there’s not [...]
It seems just a bit strange in the middle of the summer to think about fall planting and what my family will be eating fresh from the garden this October and even Thanksgiving. Yet, if I want to be ahead of the ball, I really should begin my fall garden now and go ahead and [...]
