Posts tagged as "Growing Stuff"

It’s maybe a touch embarrassing since we weren’t out of town, but somehow we missed this baby in our garden: Zucchini is terrible when it’s so huge, but I guess we’ll always miss a couple. On another note, I keep picking the cucumbers smaller and smaller. They have continued to be very seedy, and occasionally [...]

I can hardly believe my eyes, but here’s what I just got from our garden: a zucchini, two eggplants, and, wait for it, two tiny cherry tomatoes!! Our cherry tomato plants are loaded up with green ones, so we’re expecting a bounty. It’s fun to get the first ones.

Here’s what we got from our garden on Sunday: Two jalapenos, a carrot, two onions, an anaheim pepper, and 2 cucumbers (smaller this time!). The onions were pretty small, but I am still happy with them because I started them from seed (and they are way bigger than last year!). The carrot looked great, but [...]

I’ve never been a fan of cucumbers, but they are on my list of things I decided to learn to like. It may not be possible to learn to like everything you dislike, but I can always try. Since cukes were on my list, we decided to plant one this year. The variety is called [...]

Here are a few pictures of our garden as of Friday, June 25. We’ve been harvesting a good bit of lettuce and spinach, along with herbs when we need them. I spent quite a while Friday morning destroying more than a dozen cabbage worms and probably thousands of their larvae. They are what has been [...]

As it’s raining like crazy right now, I’ll share pictures from earlier today when it was nice. I will also introduce 0ur mortal enemies. Inside Plants: My squash plants are huge! I think I started them too early unfortunately, so I hope they aren’t too root-bound when I put them out (whenever it gets warm [...]

Here are our little seedlings. Here is my makeshift greenhouse for the ones that are still sprouting. Here are the herb seedlings I bought this week. Side note: I had a $30 groupon I paid $15 for–so $15 for all of these organic herbs! If you haven’t used groupon yet, you should check it out. [...]

We built a seed stand. We set it up. I started onions and broccoli. Cue ominous music indicating possible failure or misadventure.

…but I’m thinking vegetables. I’ve never started seeds before, but I’m going to try this year. I ordered from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, and they are here! If it doesn’t work out, I’ll just buy seedlings.