Happy Monday, everyone! This week brought us a few more potatoes and the surprise of a pie pumpkin and a Roma tomato that were hiding beneath the potato leaves! Amazingly, both the pumpkin and the tomato are completely fine, despite the multiple freezes we’ve had over the past couple of…
Happy Monday, everyone! Well, as I mentioned yesterday, the cold is toying with us! We were forecasted to hit freezing temps last weekend, but alas, nothing happened. I’m guessing this will be our last large harvest before bringing in all the green tomatoes in the next week or so and…
Happy Monday, everyone! I promise we harvested more than a couple of peppers, a melon and a few tomatoes! Happy Hot Peppers Our Mystery Melon! Tomato Bounty:(top row) Italian Heirloom, Sweet Small Cherry, Bi-Color Cherry, Orange Flesh Purple Smudge, Cherokee Purple(bottom row) Yellow Taxi, Black From Tula, Roma Unfortunately,…
Happy Monday everyone!!! I’ve been kind of MIA form this space over the last couple of weeks, save for a few random posting here and there. No real excuses, just life. Luckily, though, the garden and it’s production doesn’t care if I miss a few posts in Blog Land…I hope…
I think my heart has broken. OK, that might be a bit dramatic, but it’s almost true. Here’s the deal…I thought I planted several Butternut Squash seeds this spring, but now I am positive that I didn’t. The plantings would have given us a delicious and bountiful harvest this fall…
Happy Monday everyone! Better late than never, right?! Last week was pretty slow in the Garden Department with the exception of Wednesday evening when we decided to pull everything in the 4X6 raised bed (AKA the crazy tomato bed) to avoid losing it all to a freeze while we were…
Happy Monday everyone! First off, we’ve broken the 100 pound mark!!! WooHoo!!! OK…now that I’ve done my Happy Dance, we can get down to business 😉 This weeks highlights include: The first butternut squash Actual Blue Corn The second wave of Roma Tomatoes The first Italian Heirloom! A mini CSA-type…
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…