…actually make that 2 of them today. well a few weeks ago my husband caught and killed a mole. On friday when we were chilling in the back yard, i heard this rustling noise and saw some grass being pulled…
I love this zucchini plant so far. It is a very vigorous grower and the flowers are gorgeous! Also, crossing my fingers but it seems to be a good producer from all the blossoms I see. Let’s hope they all…
I know I just updated with pics one week ago but I just wanted to show how much growth can occur in such a short time. Here is a pic of the cinderblock garden. We have attached the extension to…
My little ace pepper has a flower. This plant is so tiny compared to my tomato plants. It is only about 10 inches tall but I read it is only going to get around 15-18 inches tall. I’ll be surprised…
Here are 2 of 6 melon plants that I have. They were really slow growing when the weather was cooler but now that it is starting to warm up, I can see alot of growth every day. Day time temps…
Here are some more pictures of my tropical trees. This is my Glenn Mango that I got in february. This is the only mango tree that I have that has not set any blossoms but look at the beautiful new…
I just wanted to post about our strawberries. They are such an easy and pretty plant. This morning our son picked 2 ripe berries so I was only able to take a pic of the unripe berries. These are Eversweet,…
I thought I would elaborate more on the blueberry bushes that I planted. As I stated below, I planted 4 southern high bush blueberry plants. We planted these beginning of May (I think May 7, 2009). 2 are Misty blueberry…
Well it has been 1 month since I last used fertilizer. I had put some Dynamite Mater Magic Tomato Food (5-5-9) in the planting hole when I planted out. Dynamite Mater Magic Tomato Food (5-5-9) Dynamite tomato food is Completely…
Well I guess today is a good day to show the progression of the garden. We planted out on April 23, 2009 and these pics were taken today, May 22, 2009. Here is a pic of the cinder block garden….
I just wanted to update on the tomato plants. Weather has been ideal for fruitset. Temps in the day are between 75-90 degrees, night time temps are 55-60. So far- My Cherries: Sun sugar (first to fruit set, see post…
It has been exactly 3 weeks since we planted in the garden beds. The poor little transplants looked so tiny and i was afraid they would not survive the 6 straight days of rain and cold we ended up getting…
Here are some fruit trees we have. This is a Babcock peach (white) with some grafts of a yellow peach. Hopefully the grafts will take. For such a young and little tree it has alot of small peaches on it….
I am surprised my mango trees are still alive. I purchased them in late january and we had some really cold weather (below freezing). They did not like that!! We also chopped the Carrie and Icea Cream mango trees down…
I am late posting this but we planted our vegetable garden on April 23 and here are some pics. My wonderful husband built me 2 garden beds because i didn’t think 1 was enough. This is the raised garden made…
A few days ago I went outside to find my beautiful, perfect basil was being eaten. Whatever it was did quite a bit of damage in one night. I checked all the leaves for hornworms (caterpillars), aphids, etc. but found…
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