The last of my summer garden still lingers. Its the 3 bell pepper plants that I kept as an experiment. Lamont and I wanted to see if they would “return” after the heat of the summer was gone. They did, and when the heat began to give way to cooler temperatures, say middle August or […]
Ok, admitedly, you can’t grow all things well. It seems that everyone has a speciality. Mine is tomatoes, or broccoli maybe, but certainly not beans. I have been harvesting my pole & bush beans for about 3 weeks now and it looks like they are just about done. I’ve gotten perhaps enough for a family […]
Yes, that’s the question I asked myself last May. Can sweet potatoes grow in Tucson…in the summer? I never found anything to tell me yes or no. I know they are a tropical plant and grown mostly in the South. So I discussed it with my daughter, Jennifer, who gave me a sprout for Mother’s […]
Finally, the weather is favoring the broccoli plants in my winter garden. The Calabrese is almost 2′ tall and branching profusely. I only have 3 Calabrese left from the original planting, but when I lost the original plants I put more out of the Windsor variety. The Windsor needs cooler temperatures and doesn’t branch so […]
Gotta say, I had more trouble with beans than I have ever had with anything I’ve planted…..so far…. I must have planted 150 seeds total and ended up with 40 growing bean plants. I planted the first round of say 50 seeds of pole beans. (Stringless Blue Lake) They would get eaten before they even […]
The Yellow Perfection variety is doing very well. Multitudes of flowers and fruit is just starting to set. The plants themselves are scraggly looking, but otherwise healthy. I have 2 in pots and one in the ground. The one in the ground was chewed in half by a critter, but it just grew along the […]
Some of us have been experimenting with our tomato plants to see if there is any value in carrying over our spring tomato plants through the heat of the summer and into the fall for; hopefully, another harvest before the frost of winter arrives.
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And I thought the mouse was bad. This is the damage one rabbit did overnight. It appears that only one of these plants has a chance to actually live through this distruction. The others have been eaten almost completely. I put the planter up on bricks, but it was too late. Wylie Wabbit outsmarted me. […]
These are the little darlings I planted a few weeks ago. They are loving the cooler temperatures and get sun up to about 2 in the afternoon. In about a week I’ll plant more. Succession planting is what I’m learning here, so I’ll have a continual harvest, not all at once. And 2 different varieties […]
This is my first attempt to grow broccoli and my inspiration and the cultivators were provided by Kathy who seeded, hardened and provided me with instructions for planting and care. I further read that broccoli are heavy feeders and that I should not plant them in ground that had within the previous 4 years hosted […]
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