Fall’s Coming
Our pumpkins, though very small, are starting to turn orange! Just a few more weeks until pumpkin pie (or something). Unfortunately, there are only four very small pumpkins on the vine now.... Read More
Finally: preserving for winter!
I spent the better half of the evening grilling eggplants. Mostly ours, but we got a couple from Easy Bean this week, and then there were a few food shares left at... Read More
Picked Eggplant
I picked one of the white eggplants that has been around for a month or so now for dinner last night. I was a bit weary because it was still green, and... Read More
What I’ve learned about spider plants
Keeping plants inside is still a kind of “gardening,” right? Well, I don’t have anything else to post about the outside garden today, so I’m straying off on a slight tangent. There’s... Read More
The garden still grows
Pumpkins After all of the planting, removing vine borers, watering, and waiting… it looks like if we’re lucky, we’ll have three small sugar pumpkins this fall. We need to get in touch... Read More
My tropical garden
I repotted 13 papaya plants today, along with two medjool date palms and four grapefruit trees. We’ll see what happens! I know that papayas don’t like to be transplanted, and I really... Read More
More and more rain!
(Sorry, no picture this time. I know, I’ve been avoiding this website a bit – a lot of different things have been keeping me very busy, such as my website business, the... Read More
Great day for pickin’ tomatoes
Lots and lots of stuff out of the garden today! Many Roma tomatoes, a few Amana Orange tomatoes, a large Marvel Striped tomato… more tomatoes… cucumbers, beets, and carrots (I didn’t take... Read More
Heirloom Tomatoes
Here’s a mini photo-tribute to our many kinds of heirloom tomatoes, which are finally starting to ripen. Marvel Striped Tomato These are pretty delicious, but there are very few of them and... Read More
Mid-August
Front Garden Cayenne Peppers As you can see… we’re going to have some ripe tomatoes very, very soon! There are three fat amana orange tomatoes in the front, and lots of misshapen... Read More