Top left big bulb is just-picked hard-neck garlic (about 3 1/2 inches across…the way you want it to be. To its left is a bulb that was planted in the spring. The bottom bulb came from an overlooked bulb left in the garden last year that grew wild. The two cloves to its right are…
Had a whopper of a thunderstorm storm last evening. Worst I have seen in a long while. Put the electricity out for hours and into the night. We have surge protectors for the fridge, freezer and computers, but the clocks show an outage of more than 2 hours. We have emergency lighting, candles, flashlights and…
I am not allergic to bee stings. Thankfully. Today I caught a bee off a small clover blossom between my big toe and my sandal sole. Yep, stung me. So comical to be jumping around trying to get the sandal off with my hands full of veggies from the garden!
Found a surprise baby pumpkin on the volunteer plants in the herb bed. It is just 2 inches now, but will be larger and orange by September. More pictures then.
This first sunflower (about 6 feet tall) always seems the prettiest. The brown center is 8 inches across. Add the yellow petals and it is 12 inches across. It came up by itself among the tomatoes and peas. It attracts bees to pollinate these and other nearby crops. The yellow petals are edible, and when…
The sweet corn is starting to develop the tassel at the top and the silk on the ears. Sweet corn doesn’t grow as tall as the animal corn’ and animal corn is slow in making ears. This corn is 4 feet tall. The second planting of sweet corn is barely 6 inches tall.
The third planting is just starting to poke their heads up. The second planting of beans have grown tall enough to see that the package was mislabeled and unwanted pole beans are growing. I do not have the capability for pole beans. I will have to either cut them off at about two feet and…
Yes, that is how high the animal corn has gotten. I am under the hat at 5 foot 4 and the corn is at least 6 feet tall. Wow. It is only June.