Blooms

Ornamental Pear Tree

In our backyard, we have a Redspire Flowering Pear Tree which is also called an ornamental pear tree that is several years old now.  Out of all the trees we have, this one blooms first in the spring and is the last to lose its leaves in the fall.  In the spring there are beautiful white […]

Vegetables

Planting Potatoes in a Grow Bag

This blog is providing an update on the prior one titled “Grow Bags for Potatoes”.   I usually store the seed potatoes that I purchase in a brown bags so they don’t touch each other and put them on a shelf in my garage.  I check on them every week to see if the eyes are forming […]

Vegetables

More on Potatoes

As a follow up to the blog titled “Unusual Colors for Potatoes”,  I am also growing Ozette  and Maris Piper potatoes which I purchased from www.landrethseeds.com. Ozette potatoes (see picture above) are fingerlings which grow small and narrow.  Ozettes have yellow skin and flesh.  Legend has it that this potato is an ancient Peruvian variety […]