Category: Our Garden

  • Baby lettuce hatching

    I planted a few rows of lettuce 13 days ago. I’m happy to see that a few seeds have germinated. Hopefully, fresh fall lettuce is in our future.

  • Mid-September Harvest

    Our little garden is not in a very productive mode right now. (Makes us thankful for our CSA all the more) Nonetheless we are enjoying what is growing! Our summer squash plant has regenerated itself, as big as ever. Unfortunately, the blossoms come in all the time but they fail to develop into squash. So…

  • Home Grown Jalapeños

    Back in March my son and I thought it would be fun to grow our own hot peppers. So way back then we planted jalapeño seeds in the little jiffy starter packs and put it under the plastic dome. To our surprise, they actually popped up! A few weeks later we put them in the…

  • Tomato Apocalypse

    I just couldn’t take it any more. Our yellow cherry tomatoes were so severely overgrown, and no one would eat them, so I pulled out the two plants. You know its gotten bad when your harvest has filled all the baskets and bowls in the house and you’ve resorted to the bags the oranges came…

  • Jalapeño

    We’ve got a large crop of jalapeños coming in. That’s why I was a bit surprised to spot this little red dragon as I was getting ready to pick some other stuff tonight. Most of them are long and green, but this one must have hid under a leaf while it matured and came out…

  • Too much of a good thing

    One thing we are learning as new gardeners is that you have to time a crop so that all of your fruit doesn’t ripen at the same time. Right now, we’re sick of yellow cherry tomatoes and summer squash. You know you have too much of a good thing when your children won’t pick things…

  • Watermelon

    We’ve been impatiently watching this watermelon grow in the yard. Since we’re new to this we don’t know if it is normal or not, but each plant is only growing one fruit at a time. Another will flower and get to about an inch long before dying. I wonder if that’s some sort of selection…