Sunflower & blue corn Winter squash, morning glories and a rouge sunflower Blue corn…so close to harvest ready! Lemon cucumbers!!! Jalapeno A single tomatillo flower What’s growing in your garden this week?
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Garden Mystery – Tomatoes & Their See Through Skin
Remember this tomato? As it grew on the vine, it (and it’s sister) did this weird thing with it’s skin. They both had this funny patch of almost translucent skin! Well, I just let them grow to see what would happen and when they were ready, I brought them inside… Cut them open… And discovered that they are perfectly fine!…
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Have you ever wondered how you can tell which of your flowers might become an actual squash? I sure have. Because, while the flowers sure are pretty, I’d much rather have a meal than a few flowers. This is a male pumpkin flower… This is a female pumpkin flower. How do I know? Because she is pregnant 🙂 When her…
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Harvest Monday
Happy Monday everyone!!! The Yellow Taxis have continued to bless us with their presence in the garden…which I am grateful for since not many of our other varieties are near ready for harvest! We’ve harvested about a pound a day of these babies! We also harvested our second (yes, their growth is slow this year!) squash and a few handfuls…
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Sunflower Thief
I love sunflowers. I know lots of people like sunflowers, but I really love sunflowers. I have them planted pretty much anywhere I can fit them where they’ll get enough sun. Apparently someone else in our neighborhood loves sunflowers, too. Enough the behead one and run away with it. I found this poor guy a couple of mornings…
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Rain & Some Hail Damage
Last night, as we sat on our upstairs porch, we could see the storm blowing in. When it hit, it hit hard with crazy winds, lots of rain and some hail. I am super grateful for the rain…we’ve been so dry this year, it’s been a little scary. The hail, however, I could do without. I think the garden will…
