It’s been a trying year for the garden, to say the least. The best thing about gardening is that there is always a next year. There will always be another year to try new things and be successful in growing vegetables. My garden though, is not ready to give up. My surviving pole bean plants [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on August 29th, 2010 | 4 Comments »
I know it hasn’t been that long since I planted my tomato plants, but it really seems like it has been taking them forever to ripen. In a quick glance I found 6 that were starting to ripen. I am also suspecting that my malakite and green zebra are probably close too, I just didn’t [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on August 10th, 2010 | 7 Comments »
A week in the woods was the death stroke to much of the garden. Without me here everyday to spray liquid fence or cayenne pepper or soap spray, a good deal of the garden was descimated by critters. And I mean descimated. My new green bean patch- gone. 40-some little sticks are poking out to [...]
Filed under: Uncategorized on August 8th, 2010 | 6 Comments »