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Writing Spider
After a long dry spell in Raleigh, we have finally had several days of good rain. I’m nervous that the tomatoes will start splitting open, but hopefully I kept them well watered before the rains. Many of the tomato varieties have started to set fruit. The “Red Kiss” set fruit fairly early, and now I’m waiting on four luscious tomatoes to ripen. The heat seems to have slowed down fruit setting, but with rain they should get back to producing…
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Evening Garden Walk
Purple basil amongst onions Sure sign the squash borers weren’t all extracted Bean, squash and gourd tunnel Corn! Checking out the really big squash
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Matt’s Wild Cherry Tomato
Matt’s Wild Cherry is the tiniest tomato I have ever grown, and yet it is one of the most vigorous plants. I have two of these indeterminate bushes, and they are sprawling into other plants’ territory. It is a great tasting tomato that I don’t even bother rinsing before popping in my mouth – the joy of not using pesticides! Today I need to go tie the branches up to the fence and start training them upwards, but I must…
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Purple
While I don’t use any purple in the house to decorate (which I might just have to change), it seems I have a weakness for purple in the garden. This evening while the boys were in the kiddie pool, I took some snapshots of the growing eggplants, okra and butterfly garden. Here’s a shot of the majority of the veggie garden. There is a low spot in the garden where water stands, so the plan is to convert it…
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Evening Garden Walk
Birdhouse gourd “Magnus” Coneflower Italian Climbing Squash – when do I harvest this?
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Squash Talk. Climbing “Trombetta”
This morning, which happens to be the Baby’s first birthday, a female blossom opened on the Climbing “Trombetta” Squash, an Italian summer heirloom from Renee’s Garden. There have been a couple other blossoms that never opened and eventually fell off. I had two squash vines and one gourd vine on this trellis, but I lost my other Trombetta vine to pests. I was beyond thrilled to be greeted by this one. Not wanting to risk it going to waste, I…