Flowering Onions

Onions are biennial plants, which means the first year they make bulbs (which you typically eat). If you don’t harvest onions the first year, they will come back the second year and...
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Strawberries

My nearly two-year-old nephew visited last weekend, and enjoyed eating these out of the garden. Puck also found them…. go figure! These are finally starting to produce after two years. It’s a...
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Zucchini

Once again this year, I planted both yellow and green summer squash (zucchini): Yellow Sebring and Green Elite Zucchini. I placed a row cover over half of the young plants hoping to...
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Tomatoes

A week of rain followed by 100º heat makes me forget what state I live in! But it does wonderful things for tomatoes in Minnesota. The tomatoes tripled in size in a...
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Asparagus

A few days of 100ºF heat is all it takes to turn asparagus into a giant, flowering bush! This is our third season gardening here, so we haven’t harvested asparagus yet. Unfortunately,...
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May Flowers

A lawn care company left a flyer in our door yesterday. We are part of the 57% of families in our neighborhood who don’t use herbicides on their lawns. I prefer watching...
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Mantis Ootheca

When temperatures are in the 60s for long enough, hundreds of tiny mantis will emerge from this egg case. They will seek out aphids and other tiny insects – and eat eachother...
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Tomorrow… Tomatoes.

Today… here’s Puck: Checking things out. He stays in the paths (mostly). “Broccoli…. cauliflower… kohlrabi! My FAVORITE!!” Enjoying his garden We’re finally seeing spring days in the 60s and 70s, with beautiful...
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