It is so fun to go into the backyard and visit my garden now because everything is either flowering, or the “baby vegetables” are visible. My sugar snap peas are growing like weeds, and I was able to pick a handful and snack on them last week. My squash plants have beautiful yellow flowers, but [...]
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ORIGINALLY POSTED TO THE TGP FORUM ON JULY 6, 2010.
Soooooo, the sun has finally decided to come outside and play and the strawberries have followed! I never knew that strawberry fruit literally grew out of the flower of the strawberry plant. The strawberries from my garden are small, deep red, and delicious. My [...]
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Tags: Ebony Martin, moles, pests, racoons, Scott McGowan, Stawberries, summer, sun, warm, weather, wildlife
ORIGINALLY POSTED TO THE TGP FORUM ON JUNE 22, 2010.
Anyone who lives in Seattle knows that we haven’t had the best weather this month. I heard a meteorologist on the news refer to this month as “Juneuary” and I feel that the tag is well deserved – especially since the cold snap [...]
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Tags: cold snap, Ebony Martin, june, moles, pests, Scott McGowan, seattle, snap peas, summer, trial and error, weather