Happy Monday, everyone! I am incredibly happy to report that this week has brought us a variety of small and delicious harvests! But first, let’s look at how a few things are growing… The cucumbers and bush beans are doing very well! The cukes aren’t yet reaching for their support,…
Alright, we have a mystery and I’m hoping you can help me with it! When we first moved into our home six years ago, we planted two rose bushes under one of our ground level windows. They were small but grew well over the next few years. They didn’t, however,…
Last year, as part of our CSA share, we received a delicious Mystery Melon. First, it looked like a Cantaloupe on the outside, but the flesh inside was green. Second, the taste fell somewhere between Honey Dew and Cantaloupe. Very interesting and incredibly delicious. So I saved some seeds. Fast…
Happy Monday everyone! Something very exciting happened this week! We harvested our first three tomatoes!!! Yep, you read that right…two Yellow Taxi Tomatoes and one cherry tomato! Oh man! I guess that starting those seeds under the grow lights in February really paid off 🙂 We also harvested our first…
Happy Monday everyone!!! We didn’t harvest a single thing all week until last night when I harvested some greens and carrots for lunch today (adding a couple boiled eggs makes an almost perfect salad)! I spent a lot of time last weekend cleaning, blanching and freezing all the greens we…
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……
This was an exciting week! We harvested our first, second, third, fourth and fifth tomatoes! That’s right, a total of 5 tomatoes in one week! Looks like all the patience has paid off and I couldn’t be happier! These are Yellow Taxi Tomatoes and are super yummy. The skins…