garden

untended since July, I’ve gotten one last harvest from my planter boxes. need to get my boxes up here to plant next crop. the boxes would seem unnecessary, but do far everything I’ve planted has been dug up at the... Read More0

yipee. my first flowers on my capetown honey suckle.0

arugula, purple onions, poblano peppers and cherry tomatoes0

arugula vs cherry tomatoes PLUS hard freeze = arugula kicks butt and flourishes! well and my sugar snap peas froze. dang right when they were totally cranking out on quantity.0

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in my little BOXed box planter garden to produce my six little butternuts. though I can’t keep up with the arugula. I think I harvest 1-2 gallons every other day or so. my cherry tomato bush is still cranking out... Read More0

my arugula likes this weather a little too much! I just harvested about 4 gallons of the stuff. had to give some away! good problem. and my one tomato plant is so dang happy and drooping with fruits. perhaps this... Read More0

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My first salad of my own homegrown freshly washed arrugula. My first ever tomato. My first ever honey bear and winter squash. My first ever jalapeno.0

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Ungracefully, Q-tip in hand, I fluttered from squash bloom to squash bloom landing gently on each anther. Onto the next I flit with my lightly pollen coated fuzzy q-tip. Hope my imitation of a bumbling bee is fruitful. I figured... Read More0

I drove up to my box and thought, “dang, gone two nights and my garden has already yellowed. Double darn!” but no! Ends up my squash plants each have a whole herd of yellow blossoms. This new honey bear hybrid... Read More0

With a few stragglers growing up from my awesome fertile soil/compost!0

the sun she sizzles upon the wires hung limp her moon pregnant with things yet revealed the evening cools finally and in her rhythmic absence even my garden still grows unseen ok well at least i try to make the... Read More0

They take much longer to make than I expect though I am getting much faster. Tomorrow I will plant this bed with more sugar snap peas (I hope I like them) and either more arugula or some butter leAf. I... Read More0

Oh My Arugula! It’s already sprouting! Dang I didn’t expect that… I hope my sugar snap peas start popping up by Monday! I love arugula (and chocolate gelato). I discovered these when my…ummm (not X because that is too much... Read More0

Mistress Mary, Quite contrary, How does your garden grow? With Silver Bells, And Cockle Shells, And so my garden grows.  (c1744) i don’t recall the context other than childhood, but nursery rhymes, fairy tales and fables were a typical mom... Read More0