Ugly Carrots Still Taste Good
My carrots will never make the cover of a magazine (unless the magazine is all about ugly vegetables). But at least they're colorful and still taste good.
My carrots will never make the cover of a magazine (unless the magazine is all about ugly vegetables). But at least they're colorful and still taste good.
How's your vegetable garden doing in mid-spring? Here in San Diego County, we're off to a slow, wet start, but hopeful it'll catch up the last half of spring
I tried to displace invasive mustard with native wildflowers. The birds ate most of seeds and the mustard came back, but there's 1 little patch of spring color.
The early spring phase of the keyhole garden is packed with peas, carrots and lettuces while the peppers, cucumbers and dill lurk underneath for pickles later.
Sage isn't just my name, it's also my favorite type of plant. I have over 30 salvia varieties in the garden. Here are 7 of my favorites currently in bloom.
It's the end of the year, so before we get down to planning next year's vegetable garden, it's a good time to review the good and bad of the past year's garden.
If you're in USDA zone 8 or above, it's easy to switch your keyhole garden from summer to winter veggies and keep growing. It just takes a few simple steps.
A very pregnant praying mantis preparing to lay her eggs on a fence post in mid-November. If the egg case survives, there will be 100's of babies next spring
I grew Rouge Vif D’Etampes (aka: "Cinderella") French heirloom pumpkins the first time both for Halloween and for fall squash dishes (pie!). Here are my notes.
Orb weavers are common garden spiders. The females grow quite large - 2 inches or more across, Males only half that. In the autumn they mate. Then she eats him.