Wow! A new variety of squash!

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Several years ago my friend, Dara, planted a Hopi Pale Grey a few dozen yards away from a Marina Di Chioggia, a bumpy, round,...

We’re sure hoping for more rain

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In the meantime, I've begun watering in various gardens and the orchard. That's in between putting tomato cages on a trillion tomato plants. Will...

Spring is all about firsts

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I got to thinking about that yesterday. You know, seeing the first Canadian geese arrive, the first Red-winged Blackbird, the first Trumpeter Swan, or...

And I thought I was done planting peppers

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I had forgotten to look in the bin that has customer-donated heirloom seeds! Oops! Well, I did and found four interesting, new-to-us peppers, two...

Due to the cold spring, we’re behind in planting

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Behind, but daily getting more planted. We now have all of our tomatoes in the ground! Yea! Not all of them are mulched, staked,...