Category: Vegetable Gardening
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What Doesn’t Belong Here?
I stumbled on a corn plant while maintaining a client’s garden a couple of months ago. Most people would have pulled the plant. I love it when volunteers show up in the garden! Whether animal or vegetable, it doesn’t matter. Nature is Random and Ordered Nature is both random and ordered—certain plants like certain conditions.…
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Compost Pile Potatoes
Last week while bringing a load of debris to the compost pile I spotted something growing in the mass of leaves, sticks, vegetative kitchen scraps and garden debris. After a few moments, I realized it was a compost pile potato vine. A few weeks ago I tossed potatoes in the pile and I guess they…
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Sugar Snap Peas First Bloom
Yesterday I spotted the first flower on my Sugar Snap Peas in my Square Foot Garden. I can’t wait to try them out! After some quick reading on the Burpee website I realized I made a few mistakes on my first try with Sugar Snap Peas. First, I should have staggered two to three planting…
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Square Foot Garden Update | Artwork Broccoli
My other Square Foot Garden bed is filling up fast. In this bed, I planted Sugar Snap Peas, Onion Sets, and Artwork Broccoli. Artwork Broccoli I stumbled onto Artwork Broccoli at Tractor Supply. Artwprl Broccoli has an upright habit and is quick to grow secondary heads once the main head is harvested. The heads of…
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Square Foot Garden Update | Lettuce Lovers Garden
The wettest spring I remember has my Square Foot Garden growing like, well, a weed. I planted my cool season lettuce in mid-April and it’s taken off since then. Above is my lettuce bed. I picked four varieties of lettuce at Tractor Supply from Bonnie Plants. Romaine Lettuce First I planted Romaine Lettuce. I like…
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First Shade Day – The Leaves are Out!
First Shade Day is the first day you can see shade from the trees each spring. May 5 was First Shade Day this year; though it was raining when I made the observation. First Shade Day signifies the unofficial beginning of spring. I know the cold, damp gloomy days are over. John Holden Below are…
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How Pumpkins Grow?
Yesterday my wife and I took the family to get Halloween pumpkins. While walking through the field it occurred to me that some people may not know how pumpkins grow. How Pumpkins Grow Pumpkin plants are Monoecious, they have both male and female flowers on the same plant. The female flower has a small ball…
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Cucumber Vine Growing
I marvel at how much growth is in the tip of a vegetable vine. Whether it be pumpkins, squash or cucumbers. All that potential growth bundled into a little ball. The image above is the tip of a cucumber vine. I’ve got a ton of photos of my Square Foot Gardening experiment this year. More…
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Why I love Gardening
Tonight as I walked through the yard I saw a spider weaving a web. If you thought a spider carefully crafted a web over the course of days you’re wrong. I would guess it took the spider an hour or two to weave the web below. This post isn’t about spider webs but it’s related…