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… About the Appearance of the Giant Zucchini

The plight of our squash has been well documented up to this point, especially the scourge of the powdery mildew. So you’re probably surprised to see this giant zucchini — … Continue reading

July 22, 2012 · 6 Comments

… About Our Garden: Lettuce Entertain You

Full disclosure: there’s nothing especially entertaining about this post — I just couldn’t resist using a good (bad) pun for the headline. But we did finally do a lettuce harvest … Continue reading

July 18, 2012 · Leave a Comment

… About Our Garden: The Attack of the Powdery Mildew

This is the post I didn’t want to write, so I put it off for a few days (the photos are from July 5). Why? Because it’s “True Confessions” time: … Continue reading

July 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment

… About Our Garden: What a Difference Three Days Makes!

Wow! Remember just three days ago when there were two yellow squash and one zucchini and they were only 3-4″ long? You can imagine our surprise when we checked on … Continue reading

June 30, 2012 · 2 Comments

… About Our Garden: Finally More Than Leaves and Flowers From the Squash

When we were watering tonight we found one zucchini and two yellow squash! They’re in the 3-4″ range, which is amazing since they weren’t there just a couple days ago. … Continue reading

June 27, 2012 · Leave a Comment

… About Our Garden: You Know They’ll All Turn Red At Once

Just a quick update to let you know that “a watched tomato never turns red” — because we’ve been staring at all these green tomatoes for a few weeks now! … Continue reading

June 22, 2012 · Leave a Comment

… About Our Garden: The Lonely Red Tomato

Meet our lonely red tomato. It showed up before the plant was even in the ground and recently turned red, but it stopped growing and is only the size of … Continue reading

June 17, 2012 · Leave a Comment

… About Our Garden: One Month Progress Report

As you can see, the garden is progressing nicely. Here are some “before” (left) and “after” (right) photos. The “before” ones were taken about two weeks after planting (5/26) and … Continue reading

June 13, 2012 · Leave a Comment

… About Our Garden: The First Big Lettuce Harvest

Rob and I both love to eat salad, and it’s a good thing because I think we’re going to have lots of lettuce this year. We harvest by the leaf, … Continue reading

June 8, 2012 · Leave a Comment

… About Our Garden: Planted and On Its Way

We got the garden planted about three weeks ago and things are moving along pretty quickly. We usually start with plants but this year decided to start with seeds (except … Continue reading

May 26, 2012 · Leave a Comment