We've been having cloudy days with actual rain falling most afternoons and temps in the mid 80's. I took down about half of the garden tomatoes this past week, leaving just...
It's time to collect Chinese Python Snake Bean seed. There are a few out there that are about 55 long and starting to rot at the tail end where they. are touching the ground....
Out at the mailbox flowerbox this evening. Liked both the petunias and the snapdragons; it hung around at least 5 minutes, even with my neighbor banging his garbage cans into...
We've been in the 80's for the last ten days and the tomatoes are loving it! They're putting on new foliage and flowers. The dwarf plants seem to have hung in there better...
We've been pulling tomatoes a bit early and letting them finish ripening in the house. I am really glad to report that the squirrel pressure has dialed back for reasons...
More Millionaire and Chinese String eggplant! Yesterday I dug out a recipe that uses 2.5 lbs of eggplant in a casserole and made it today to go with lunch. These plants...
This is the Honey drop cherry tomato and they're nice and sweet. It's loaded but when I picked a bunch yesterday I only got a very small handful that weren't badly cracked....
This is the first EM-Champion that was picked five days ago and brought inside to ripen. It weighed 10.5 oz, juicy and was consumed with lunch today. To me it has a decent...
Some of my regular season tomatoes are starting to blush! My absolutely first tomatoes were off a Fat Jack plant that I started very early and put in a container in the...
So I transplanted my Dark Stripe Micro tomatoes into big pots this weekend and I was just fascinated by the buds they're producing. I know they're supposed to be multi flora,...
RAIN!!!!! We finally got the first rain in 31 days early last evening. There was 0.6 in the gauge but we appreciate every drop and it's raining again this morning....
Late yesterday afternoon when I was in the back yard I heard a loud noise out front and went to investigate. A huge limb had split off one of the big black walnuts right at...
Currently the tomatoes live in two spots. Fourteen are down in the garden in buckets and on pallets because of a bacterial wilt in the soil that only kills the tomatoes....
At least some tomatoes are starting to ripen in the heat. Most of these were set pre-heat wave but amazingly I see new ones forming, especially on the Honey Drop cherry and...
Last night Pickles noticed a big Luna moth plastered against one of the back door windows so I was able to get a pic of both upper and lower sides. Although the underside pic...
This is the magical time of year when squash plants are the most pretty! No bugs yet, no mildew or other funk problems and, best of all, no SVBs yet. This is just regular old...
Yesterday I picked the first Little Purple Snow Peas of the season. This is the first time I've tried them. They're smaller than the taller varieties but the flowers are so...
Forgot I had three trays of tomatoes in the oven from drying the night before. Fired it up to 400 to do some baking. Didn’t know anything was wrong till I started smelling...
Yesterday I picked the first Little Purple Snow Peas of the season. This is the first time I've tried them. They're smaller than the taller varieties but the flowers are so...
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