Gardening always has challenges
There are sometimes new challenges come along, like groundhogs last year. And old challenges like blight on tomatoes and powdery mildew on squash. I had both of them bad this […]
Tag Archives: jalapenos
The good earth provides
Let the harvests continue! I love to see beans curing in a jar on the window sash. Those are the first black turtle beans, and later there will be some […]
Things are growing on around here!
I went to the greenhouse early in the season to buy herbs. I saw 4 “cute little spaghetti squash” plants, and decided to bring them home too. I would plant […]
Goodies from the end of the garden
Mmmm, stuff from the garden is always the best. I have a few jalapenos left, the regular green ones that have now turned red. Eliza’s purple ones are flowering and […]
The blessings of the earth in our garden
We’ve been eating cucumbers, and we all like them here and have agreed that none from any store will ever taste this good. A couple things that Eliza got […]
Our garden needs road signs
Most people think of a garden and what they see in their mind is a big, well organized square of nice neat rows. Not here, not our garden. Oh […]
Onion sets……let the gardening begin!
Serious thoughts of gardening begin when the hardware store downtown gets their onion sets. These little dandies planted and left in the ground about 6 weeks give you the […]
How does your garden grow?
Collards are doing good, several ready to harvest soon and scattered plantings mean there will be some coming along for a while. Romaine is looking good and I plan a […]
Sarasin's thoughts....... 