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There are now at least four aerial pumpkins. The one shown above is the largest and is easily bigger than a political candidate's swollen head. The pumpkins clearly love this weather - hot, sunny, wet, sunny and hot again. It will all eventually wind up as pie, pumpkin bread, or pumpkin as a vegetable side …
Here are the first cherry tomatoes of the season. Pretty soon, I'll be picking them by the basket and surreptitiously leaving them on neighbors' porches.
Summer is again the time for aerial pumpkins, which are becoming somewhat of a Carreras garden tradition. We transitioned to 30-inch-tall beds for most of our garden, and my back and knees are very grateful. But I underestimated the fertility of the new beds.The squash bed is growing so fast that I can almost hear …
My wife joked about last year's squash patch and that there were pumpkins in the tree. OK, so it did get a bit out of hand.This year, I switched mainly to tall thirty-inch raised beds to save my back and knees. I used the Lasagna Method to fill the beds with small branches, leaf mulch, …
Gardeners don't always share common languages. But they share similar joys, frustrations, challenges, and crops. Between groups of people, methods vary. You prefer to grow a paste tomato grown from seeds snuck in from Italy in an ancestor's intimate luggage. I grow cherry tomatoes for salads. But we share a fence and spend time at …
This was the first of about five large containers of cherries that my wife and I picked today. Just the other day, they seemed yellow, but the hot weather seemed to move the ripening process along.The birds complained noisily—we should keep our cherry-picking hands to ourselves. But we are leaving the entire top of the …
It's called Indian Pink, and I have persuaded myself to allow it into the edge of the woodland garden. It is an East Coast native plant, but it comes from a bit south of me in Pennsylvania and Maryland. I have liked its appearance for years, and this year, I decided to see if it …
A favorite moment? When you push aside that leaf, poke your nose around that rock, and catch the glow of the first squash blossom of the season.The squash bed has spread a thick canopy over that part of the garden, and soon, the daily hunt will begin to harvest zucchini at just the right size. …
You don't always get what you expect in the garden. This amaryllis did not bloom around Christmas but decided to bloom in time for Memorial Day. I am always pleased by my carnivorous plants' tiny but lovely blossoms. Here, on the right, is the blossom of a tropical sundew, and on the left that of …
Growing fruit is not an armchair occupation. You purchase the plants, put them in the garden, and then you tend them. Sometimes, you harvest a bounty. But, honestly, sometimes things could work out better. Among the earliest purchases I made for our garden when we bought our home was a cherry tree. Please don't ask me which …
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