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Ok, so with all this heat around here I have kind of let my garden go and grow as it wants to, because really, there was nothing growing that I knew needed daily attention, and with the 1/2" -1" of rain we've been getting every 72 hours or thereabouts, I knew I didn't have to water either...

Today, in an effort to get rid of the *piles* of tomatoes taking up every square inch of window sill (with more on the way, ack!) we are making salsa. And a picante sauce, too, seeing as how when I process stuff in the blender, it winds up a lot less chunky, oh well! So far I've got 2 oz...

I am doing the happy dance because there is FINALLY a tomato ripening on my windowsill, having shown its first blush this afternoon. Would have come on here sooner with the announcement but I was helping to pull stumps and then had to run errands and then was offline for *hours* putting my new...

This just popped up a couple of days ago, full grown (or so it seems! LOL! I didn't notice it!). It's growing behind my strawberries -- which are now filled with buckthorn, ARGH! :barnie Here's the only pic I have so far, the flowers are really the only pretty part. It's very tall, about 5...

Yay, I was only going to *thin* my carrots today (they all wound up growing in 2 big clumps and a couple smaller clumps) when to my surprise I discovered that thinning carrots meant that I got a good handful of baby carrots -- easily enough to share at our barbeque tonight. :D I got a bunch of...

Ok, I was going to write a long screed about kids coming into my garden (again! I put a fence up! A big one!) and about how they uprooted one of my heirloom zukes (the only one of that variety to sprout, too . . . *grrr*) which was different from them looking for grasshoppers . . . then I...

And it was the radishes, believe it or not. They were ready faster than the strawberries, even, and the strawberries typically are the first things year after year. I took some pictures of the radishes -- there were 4 that were ready-- and I'll get that picture up tomorrow, probably, right now...

I wanted to let everybody know that we do actually have radishes now, I have seen a few with their little round red roots popping up through the dirt! Hopefully in a few days they'll be ready to pick. I also saw more than a few carrot sprouts in our garden yesterday, which I hadn't noticed...

Here's hoping I got it right :) I snipped off about half the heads of my chive 'bush', and wound up packing 2 pint canning jars (Bell, brand new). Then I got some distilled white vinegar at Costco (all-natural, it says) and put the vinegar over the chive flower heads. Given the mass of the...

I dunno if anybody's ever heard of Tennis Ball Lettuce, it's a heirloom variety that is an ancestor of the Boston Bibb, if I remember correctly, and when I put it in my garden nobody either around me or online seemed to know exactly how long it would take to germinate. Research indicated 10-14...

Last year, my sage grew and was healthy, and thrived. Even managed to harvest some leaves to dry (which lasted until Thanksgiving! LOL!). This year, it's even bigger and more luxuriously leafy, but I've noticed what can only be flowers growing on last year's stems. This isn't going to stop it...

I thought this was very interesting . . . https://www.msu.edu/~howardp/seedindustry.html Whitewater

Can't seem to find the answer anywhere, hoping you folks will know! So, this year for some reason our 3 year old apple tree is positively LOADED with blossoms, that look gorgeous and smell heavenly. Needless to say, Hubby and I are thrilled! Particularly since last year wasn't really worth...

I need some ideas . . . The patch of land that I'm going to put veggies on (and where I grew veggies with good results last year) is only about 1/4 reclaimed. That's the part that I physically dug up by hand last year so that I could plant 6 zukes, 4 pepper plants and 2 tomatoes. They didn't...

Tee-Hee :lol: For those of you who don't know about the BackYard Chickens forum (it's a sister site to this one, about raising urban chickens in your backyard, and I've been yapping over there about our newest endeavor), my hubby and I decided recently to have chickens and I've been running...

4 days after I stuck the (teeny) basil seeds into the peat seed starter stuff, guess what? I've got sprouts! Or whatever you call them, the first green things that poke up out of the peat. They are a lot smaller than I thought they would be, but I guess it makes sense, the basil seed was also...

I have finally decided on the varieties of tomatoes I want this year! And since all but two of them are new to me (for growing and for eating!) I'd love to hear your opinions about them. In no particular order: Early Girl -- This one I planted last time and it was ok. I didn't find the taste...

Last year, towards the end of August (just about 3/4 of the way through the 'safe' growing season around here, when there were plenty of tomatoes, peppers, and zucchini -- yikes, the zucchini -- growing in our garden), I came home from work one day to find a disturbing sight. Our garden was...

Well, I guess this is my newbie-ness showing . . . I planned a terrific garden for this summer. Researched, drew diagrams, looked info up online, found this forum (yay!), went and bought a seed-starting kit and seeds . . . have plans, solving problems (in theory, I'm doing a lot of thought...

So . . . This year in my garden I'm planning on growing a bunch more peppers than last year, 'cause here in zone 4 the plants produced a half-dozen peppers each last summer . . . I need more peppers than that! I know about cross-pollination and the fact that it happens in seeds, but I'm...