So this is what happens when you just throw your hands up on your garden and say “do whatever you want!”. You get squash plants gone wild. On the right side we now know for certain we have a Long Island Cheese Pumpkin, on the left I’m pretty certain we have a Galeux D’eysines and on the bottom (you can barely tell) is an acorn squash which was a complete
Where do I begin? Well, a good place to start is at the beginning I guess. Yard is looking rather unkept. Lawnmower broke around this time! Yes, I’ve been away. With our move coming closer and closer we’ve been absorbed in other pursuits, namely preparing ourselves, our household for our final move as my husband retires from the US Army. I’ve been jokingly saying to my husband that this years garden
You know one of the things I love MOST when going away, even for the smallest vacation, is coming back and finding SURPRISES.That is something really rather endearing about our very modest garden. We can leave for even a very small time, come back and VOILA. We have new things popping up. This past weekend we escaped to one of our favorite State run campgrounds for a bit of R&R,
A few might recall I posted a giveaway for free seeds a while ago. I do have a few left to give out which I have listed down below here but here’s a bonus for those who received some of those free seeds. A bit of history. I am the type of person who loves reading the history behind a plant. How did it become so popular? Why is this certain vegetable
My new favorite winter squash is the Black Futsu squash! Really! I think this almost qualifies as a new love of mine!Let me just say this is the most delectable, the most tasty winter squash that so far I have yet to enjoy! We purchased our seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom seeds because it just looked interesting. Here is their description. Rare, black Japanese squash, the fruit is flattened, round
This weekend we knew the time had come since the okra got knocked down during that storm last week. It’s time to plant the garlic. Just remember, the best time to plant, by the way, is four to six weeks before your first predicted freeze. For us in USDA determined zone 7A, that means we plant on or about mid September because our first predicted freeze is on or about
The end of the okra that is. We have been deciding what to do with our okra plants that, this year, didn’t really produce much. This is mostly our fault for two different reasons. We planted them too late. We planted them too few. Number 1 was a new lesson. We didn’t have this issue last year as we didn’t plant garlic two years ago.This year the garlic did not
I feel like it’s been forever since I’ve written and yet it was only earlier last week that I wrote! So much has happened since the last time I wrote so, this is one of those moments when I take a huge sigh and try to figure out where to begin. In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland the King said to the White Rabbit “Begin at the beginning and go on till
This weekend I decided to bite the bullet and tear out our lovely, beautiful lone tomatillo plant. If you remember right I posted earlier that I made the rookie mistake of only planting one tomatillo plant. You know, the old saying, it takes two to tango? Well that applies here. Tomatillo plants are self infertile which means they need two plants to produce fruit. Since I only planted one plant the tomatillo was
A weekend not spent camping usually means a productive day or two in the garden. This weekend we didn’t go camping so we managed to tidy up a bit, pull weeds, move some of our squash and cucumber vines around and work in our compost bins a bit. To those who are new to reading here, we do both traditional compost and Vermicompost. Traditional composting is more or less just
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