Green Globe Artichokes in April
While a gopher plague is delaying the main vegetable garden, the artichokes in the north beds are doing just fine. Fresh artichokes for dinner kids!
While a gopher plague is delaying the main vegetable garden, the artichokes in the north beds are doing just fine. Fresh artichokes for dinner kids!
A super easy to grow succulent that looks like clusters of tiny translucent watermelons, known to some as "Alien Eggs." A great indoor plant for any collection.
Just because it's still winter doesn't mean you can't get ready for spring gardening. Here are five garden tasks you can do now before spring arrives
It's mid-winter now, but six months ago it was high summer. Here's the hanging gourd garden as it appeared in August and now in February
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.
The air backlit by the sunset reveals that it's thick with normally invisible insects. No wonder this orb weaver chose to string its web here!
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.
Summer is gone, but the sweet corn isn't. Cool(ish), wet weather helped make the sweetest, plumpest corn of the season ready in the garden in mid-October.
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.
Got a small compost pile that’s a bit of work to turn? Here’s a simple tool you can put together in a couple of minutes that’ll make it easy to do.