I am feeling the excitement that comes with tending a garden… the potential of fresh vegetables. Vegetables planted in late February and early March have come up and are flowering and setting fruit. I have squash blossoms, green bean plants with lavender flowers and okra plants with spears and flowers. October Planting Fading Out Tomatoes […]
Entries Tagged as 'Raised Garden'
Promise of Good Things to Come
April 20th, 2012 1 Comment
Tags: Acorn Squash · Basil · Cilantro · Green Beans · Okra · Raised Garden · Tomatoes · Vegetables
Peppers in Distress
April 6th, 2012 1 Comment
During an unusually rainy time in March, the poblano, jalapeno, banana and bell peppers I planted began to suffer from, what looked like, damping off. Damping off is my guess, because everything else in the box is doing well. The drainage in the box may not have been sufficient for the peppers. The stems turned […]
Tags: Pepper Plants · Raised Garden
And the garden begins again….
March 17th, 2012 5 Comments
I went from one 4-ft by 8-ft box for an above-ground, or raised, garden to multiple boxes this year. One box was very successful… so much so, that I oped for a second one in February. My son had a box that he no longer used, so we disassembled it and moved it to my […]
