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……
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…
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…
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,…
Chickens are dirty birds. They poop everywhere and then they kick their poop everywhere else while scratching around for food and bugs. We probably don’t clean out their coop as often as we could (I’ve read that some people clean out their coops every single week while we do…
The first cosmo! “I’ve fallen and I can’t get up! So…I guess I’ll just hang out down here with the squash…” Bush beans Broccoli! The bush beans are out of control! The butternut squash is getting huge and starting to change colors! More sunflowers! These guys are about 10 feet…
I’ve had my first sting! Yep, I’m 34 and have never been stung by a bee before! Maybe it’s my name??? Oh well! It was an accident. I was harvesting some tomatoes, squatted down and didn’t realize that a little bee had landed on my calf. As I went down,…
Happy Monday everyone!!! We’re starting to see a little more color in our harvests, though not as much as I’d like! Turns out that one of the mystery tomatoes that was transplanted and not labelled is another Yellow Taxi!!! Ah well! A tomato is a tomato and I am grateful…