Here we are, looking at the middle of August, and as usual, my garden looks like crap. It looks like a black and white photo with green and brown instead. I hate this time of year. The heat has just… Read more ›

Another fig is ripe on my fig tree and I will not be eating it… again. No, it won’t be the squirrels or crows that snitch it (though they often try. Thank the garden gods for my crazy, runt tom… Read more ›

There was just a bit of excitement in my garden today. The worst part was, I wasn’t even here for it. It started with one hell of a storm this morning. The rain came down so hard that the middle… Read more ›

Finally! Some tasty tidbits from my garden. A cucumber is miraculously ready to eat. This is a particularly monumental occasion for me. Though I religiously plant cucumbers every year, I am lucky if I get one little biddy cucumber from… Read more ›

Oo Ah, Oo Ah. Oo Ah, Oo Ah. I got a tomato. I got a tomato. *happy dance* That’s one small step for a tomato; one giant leap for my vegetable garden.

It is always a bitter sweet moment when one of my Hens and Chick plants flowers. The flowers are so striking and lovely but what those flowers ultimately mean are that the Hen and Chick plant will die. The mature… Read more ›

Do you know what is worse than feeling like you are a vegetable growing failure? Discovering that while your concerted efforts to grow lettuce in the vegetable garden have failed miserably, your lawn sees fit to grow volunteer lettuce. I… Read more ›

It’s a bad vegetable garden day. I have good days and bad days and today is a bad day. On the good days, I tell myself to be patient and that everything is growing fine. On bad days, I pretty… Read more ›

The Pak-Choi has bolted. It started to bolt just a few days after I planted it in the ground. I had hoped to keep it from bolting by nipping off the buds, but that did not work. I must face… Read more ›