I was standing at the edge of the squash bed when he entered the garden gate. “Hey, can you help me for a sec?” I called out. He walked over, pretty much as tall as me and nearly a teenager, he looked me straight in the eye without so much as a crack of a…
Last year I honestly thought we might never grow summer squash again. Funny what a difference just 12 months can make. Fickle I am and boy does gardening show it. After reading all about how squash bugs were hard to get rid of, how they come back year after year no matter what, and how…
Who else is bringing in squash by the laundry basket full? Yesterday morning I canned another seven quarts of chopped squash in the pressure canner and followed it up with seven quarts of squash pickles. If you’d asked me last year if we’d have a huge harvest of squash again I would have said no….
It has pleased the Lord that we would have a gradual move from winter to summer this year. It is quintessentially spring and it has been such a gift. And rain! No one told me how much easier it is to garden when you don’t have to constantly water your seedlings! Y’all everything is growing and…
