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I will look for my seed packet.

Well, nice. Thanks!

More of my beautiful pumpkin haul. Myself, my twin grandchildren, and my son-in-law.

Pumpkins are the crop that made me fall in love with gardening when I was a very little girl. I don't think I have missed a season growing them since. What a year. we have had 4 different harvests, and they are a few giants still turning orange. My new favorite isn the black Warty. I always grow...

Black Warty

My favorites.

I have not made bread for much of this hot summer. I made rice bread yesterday as the temps have cooled, and I was dying for my favorite summer breakfast/lunch. The first step is to get the biggest, reddest tomato in the garden. So big, that one slice covers the face of a slice of bread...

The trap is so loaded!

For my fellow gardening friends New info on fighting this pest. The Yellow striped cucumber beetle will spread disease on your cucumbers and other curcurbits. I read to use a yellow tray, fill it with soap and water. I tried this and added vegetable oil, also. It is now filling up with the YSCB...

I think you need a tree arborist.

Yikes!

Nice...thanks.

One of my own Amaryllis hybrids. Giant double red.

Love my Amaryllis

My Veranda type tomatoes are starting to ripen in my greenhouse. Such a treat after a long winter. More for fun than anything. The little ones in my life love to pluck and eat.

Thank-you!

Hah! I am almost ready to start pumpkin and squash seeds!

That's how my first cat became a barn cat. Somehow in my first pregnancy my cat thought 4 in the morning was a perfect time to get up to go outside.

Oh that is perfect!

We are having our coldest winter in years. My greenhouse is loaded with my own Amaryllis hybrids. I repotted them 2 summers ago, and they are huge and glorious. I spend my days in there, starting my early veggies and being surround by the Amaryllis. I have gone back to my treadmill in my cellar...