Animals
A very moist summer has made excellent growing conditions for our most prolific crop....WEEDS! We have had a fantastic berry harvest this year. Even the wild blackberries that line our woods are bursting with plump ripe fruit (watch out for chiggers,though!). Our tomato plants are loaded (not quite ripe, yet). Vine plants (at least those on the ground) have been a big disappointment. We harvested a handful of cucumbers before the vines died. Our zucchini and summer squash died before they had a chance to produce. It seems that these plants' demise was caused by two separate agents...some nasty insect and also a type of fungus. We have several watermelons hanging on to their vines, and each day we cross our fingers and hope that the vines make it.
- Come Stroll With Me
Come stroll with me in the garden.The sun has set and the air is moist and cool. We've had just enough rain this past week for me to ignore the watering,and still, it all is looking like a jungle. The sunflowers are over 10 feet tall! With their...
- Autumn Gardening
Amazingly, it is mid October and soon the end of this year's gardening season.You wouldn't guess that, though, if you looked at my garden.So much of it is still going strong. The garden fences are totally covered in flowering vines and gourds...just...
- Out Of My Gourd!
I am crazy.Crazy, that is, about vines.With the exception of poison ivy,(and don't look at my face right now, it is covered in poison ivy.)(Thank you, Oakley...but that's a different story!) Again, with the exception of poison ivy,I love...
- Blackberries
Weather has not been optimal this summer for many of my vegetable garden plants. We have tomatoes on the vine, but they are very slow to ripen and do not have the best juicy texture. Vine plants such as squashes and cucumbers have yielded no fruit....too...
- Minerva, Master-weeder
Amazingly, since Minerva has taken up residence in the garden, it is virtually weed free (we won't mention that I spent the entire past week on my hands and knees). Regardless, the garden is the best it has ever looked at this point of the season....
Animals
A Garden Gone Wild!
A very moist summer has made excellent growing conditions for our most prolific crop....WEEDS! We have had a fantastic berry harvest this year. Even the wild blackberries that line our woods are bursting with plump ripe fruit (watch out for chiggers,though!). Our tomato plants are loaded (not quite ripe, yet). Vine plants (at least those on the ground) have been a big disappointment. We harvested a handful of cucumbers before the vines died. Our zucchini and summer squash died before they had a chance to produce. It seems that these plants' demise was caused by two separate agents...some nasty insect and also a type of fungus. We have several watermelons hanging on to their vines, and each day we cross our fingers and hope that the vines make it. What we have had great luck with is the squash and gourds that we planted along the garden fence. These caught hold of the fence wires and climbed high to safety. Now our garden fence is decorated with fruit of varying sizes and ripeness.
Root plants such as carrots, radishes, beets, onion and garlic have given us a good harvest.
This Spring, Becky added a row of ever-bearing strawberries to the strawberry patch and much to my surprise, they have started their second harvest (in August!)
- Come Stroll With Me
Come stroll with me in the garden.The sun has set and the air is moist and cool. We've had just enough rain this past week for me to ignore the watering,and still, it all is looking like a jungle. The sunflowers are over 10 feet tall! With their...
- Autumn Gardening
Amazingly, it is mid October and soon the end of this year's gardening season.You wouldn't guess that, though, if you looked at my garden.So much of it is still going strong. The garden fences are totally covered in flowering vines and gourds...just...
- Out Of My Gourd!
I am crazy.Crazy, that is, about vines.With the exception of poison ivy,(and don't look at my face right now, it is covered in poison ivy.)(Thank you, Oakley...but that's a different story!) Again, with the exception of poison ivy,I love...
- Blackberries
Weather has not been optimal this summer for many of my vegetable garden plants. We have tomatoes on the vine, but they are very slow to ripen and do not have the best juicy texture. Vine plants such as squashes and cucumbers have yielded no fruit....too...
- Minerva, Master-weeder
Amazingly, since Minerva has taken up residence in the garden, it is virtually weed free (we won't mention that I spent the entire past week on my hands and knees). Regardless, the garden is the best it has ever looked at this point of the season....