tatume squash
hardly any make it into the house
still more to come…
lucullus chard continues to produce
first year trying okra
beans galore
finding the bottom of the barrel?
sunflowers!
kazakh melons
pigeon peas still young
love his homemade gates
always adding more mulch
What’s happening in your garden?
In one of my favorite gardening books, The Resilient Gardener by Carol Deppe, emphasis is put on staple calorie crops that produce in the worst conditions. That concept has stayed with me these past few years as we’ve chosen what seeds (or slips) to fill what spaces. We have planted sweet potatoes every summer since…
The story of the spring garden is much like past years… in some ways. We plant early to try to beat the summer heat because it isn’t abnormal to be cool like spring one week and in the 90s the next. We are now already full-on in the latter stage, by the way. But this…
Stewart planted loads of garlic this year. It went in late, to be sure, but because we could find no onions to plant, we planted plenty. This little ma’am is nearing the five month mark. Are my children the only ones who put everything into a bowl with milk and call it cereal? We now…
We’ve been wanting to get away from buying the plastic seed-starting trays since they get destroyed shortly after purchasing and almost never last more than one season. A soil blocker seemed like a good idea but we weren’t ready to commit to a purchase just yet. So, Stewart devised a few homemade soil blocker from…
Digging up root vegetables is probably one of the most exciting homestead tasks. The children absolutely love it, and so do we, especially since we get to watch their reactions upon digging. This year the sweet potatoes somehow grew, despite the drought and death of everything else in the garden come July. I am sure…
Do you ever head to your local gardens or closest national park and wonder how it manages to stay so beautiful year round? It could be because it’s a native garden. A native garden consists only of plants that are native to your country and region. They are easy to maintain as they’re adapted to…
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Our garden is doing well this year – but my tomatoes are all still green. The colder than normal winter delayed everything this year. Okra – one of my favorite things to grow. Hope you have good success with it. We grow Clemson spineless okra. Enjoyed your pictures as always.
How I wish I could grow melons up here! We have some local farms that do, but they never seem to grow in my garden. It looks wonderful!