Outdoor Grow Room

Fall Update of the Vegetable Garden

Wanted to share an aerial view of my fall vegetable garden before I start pulling some of the plants.  The flowers and the tomato, tomatillo and pepper plants are still looking good and producing since we’ve had a warm spell.  The bean plants and okra are starting to slow up.  I am currently growing arugula, […]

General Gardening Outdoor Grow Room

Gutting the Garden

Since we had to get ready for the Crazy for Gardening makeover, we got some young men to help us.  Our son, John and two of his friends, Bosko and Logan helped do the major gut work (aka the heavy lifting).    Did you ever try to plan a project and underestimate how long it […]

Veggie Families

The Goosefoot Family

I’m not sure which sounds stranger saying the technical name of this family which is Chenopodiaceae or its nickname which is the Goosefoot.  If inquiring minds want to know why it is called goosefoot , folks say that many of the leaves in this family look like goose feet.  While I don’t think I would […]