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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
It’s Friday again! I hope you all enjoyed the mostly cooler week! I know that I did. Even though zucchini aren’t as good once they get big, the white stripes on the ‘Sunstripe’ zucchini really pop once they get bigger (left side of picture). We picked 3 more of the…
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Continue reading →: Troubles in Vine-Land
As I mentioned in passing on Tuesday, we have several different things going on with our vining vegetables – cucumbers, squash, etc. Actually, the melon plants are all still in good shape, so the problems are restricted to the cucumbers and various squashes. Here’s the first one: The cucumbers in…
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Continue reading →: Video Wednesday
Yes, I know I promised a post about insects and diseases on vine crops, but I guess that will have to wait until tomorrow. I’d rather cover something more fun…planting a fall garden! Here’s a video I did a couple years ago on Colorful Fall Veggies.
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Continue reading →: Family of 4 Garden Harvest Report
Today was an exciting day in the Family of 4 Garden! We actually had some tomatoes to harvest! They turned out to be not beautiful – one with a crack and one with a touch of blossom end rot (shock!). But they were still tomatoes. The cucumbers and zucchini are…
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Continue reading →: Planning to Plant Garlic
Last Friday I got 2 phone calls/emails about planting garlic and then read 2 more articles on planting garlic in a couple of magazines. I was bemoaning the fact that I didn’t have a good place to plant a bunch of fun garlic. Then I realized that maybe the Demo…