On this day of the Autumnal Equinox, which occurs at 5:18 EDT, what is the state of your vegetable garden? Choose one:(a) I’m still picking a lot of vegetables from it and it will take a hard frost to …
What To Do With The Harvest
Close your eyes and taste a bite of my freshly picked cantaloupe, grown in my own vegetable garden. It is as good as it looks, and reminds me of my grandparents who always seemed to have cantaloupe …
Sizing Up Squash
Please review carefully these 'Eight Ball' squash picked at various times this week.Now which one was picked at the right time?Take your time, there are four choices. We'll call the big one "far …
“Little n” Nasturtiums
I’m not sure how a few pictures of nasturtium growing in the vegetable garden and the idea to write a simple post about how easy this plant is to grow turned into a botanical jumble that took me …
My First Tomato That Doesn’t Count And Other Tomato Growing Questions Answered
Many novice gardeners are growing the Queen of the Vegetable Garden, tomatoes, for the first time this season, and may have some questions about everything from hornworms to entering the May Dreams …
What Happened To The Umbels?
What happened to the umbels?I was standing in the garden the other day, looking around, checking for blooms and bugs and doing some spot weeding, and realized I have no umbels in the garden.Where had …
