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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The sweet corn in the back yard seems to be confused…it’s not even 3 feet tall, but it’s starting to try to produce corn…weird! The German Butterball Potatoes are getting ready to flower! The Butternut Squash is getting some color texture! Bush Beans, Pole Beans and Snap Peas Mystery tomatoes…
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UncategorizedHilling Up Corn
Apparently, hilling up your corn will strengthen it against the wind, allowing it to grow more roots than it would otherwise. To date, our corn has done just fine without messing with it. But then again, we have never grown blue corn before. Our blue corn (which is in the…
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The first pie pumpkin The first (ever) acorn squash I love the texture in this bed…Sunflowers, tomatoes and acorn squash Ashes made her way outside, Bo was not happy about it… Baby tomatoes…not suffering from butt rot The first lemon cucumber…the previous few mysteriously disappeared… The first bush snap pea…
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UncategorizedGarden Happiness(es)
The beginnings of a jalapeno! This bed is 4 feet wide & the fence behind it is 6 feet tall. This means, officially, that our tomatoes are out of control. Buddha hanging out with the blue corn . How can something so green bring one so much happiness??? Bush snap…
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Round two of the snap peas is much smaller than Round One, but we already have a few flowers and one actual pea 🙂 The Blue Corn is coming along nicely! This is my first year trying this variety…my fingers are officially crossed! All of the tomatoes I started from…
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UncategorizedGarden Happiness(es)
Random happy happenings in the garden over the past week… The beans, sunflowers and blue corn are starting to peek! The snap peas are flowering! I think this might be might very first tomatillo sprout! The radishes are looking happy! Tool Lady is looking happy, too! One of the Newbies…