Welcome to Fig Watch 2018. That's right! Figs! On the edge of their hardiness zones. Lots of them, too. I didn't count them but I think there are about 56 figs out there. Because maybe I did count …
A Raccoon Rumspringa Party in My Garden
I went out earlier today to check on my pawpaws and they were gone. Gone. As in not a trace of a pawpaw anywhere. No half eaten fruit. No seeds delicately spit out by whoever ate them. No tracks. No …
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‘Tis the Season of the Pawpaw
'Tis the season of the Pawpaw and I've been going out every day, sometimes twice a day, to check on the fruit on one of my little pawpaw trees. What? You've never heard of our native fruit tree, the …
Raspberries
My raspberries. They came to me in the early spring of 2012, three sticks with a few roots attached at one end. I planted them in an area where I had previously planted some shrubs on the edge of …
August Harvest: Red Raspberries
Big drops of red raspberries drip off into my hand. I pick. I eat. I pick some more. Very few make it all the way indoors. Why did I wait so long in my gardening life to plant raspberry …
The bloom is off the viburnum
Strawberry blooms The bloom is on the strawberry and off the Korean Spice Viburnum. By golly, now that it isn't blooming, I think I can remove that Korean Spice Viburnum on the right side of …
