General Gardening

Harvest and Store Summer Squash

  Don’t forget that summer squash includes yellow squash and green zuchinni.   These plants usually have large leaves and are in a bush form.  Once the female flower is pollinated you need to keep checking because the zucchini should be ready in about 5 days.  Take a look at a prior post on how to […]

General Gardening

Harvest and Store Okra

After transplanting okra, it is ready to start harvesting in about 60 days.  If you are not growing the spineless variety, you may want to use gardening gloves when harvesting! A word of advice – don’t pick the okra flower because it produces the okra which comes out after the flower.  As I mentioned the […]

General Gardening

Harvest and Store Cherry Tomatoes

Sometimes pictures just say it all.  Look at these beautiful cherry tomatoes that I harvested from my garden.  As you know, I am growing the Rainbow Blend from Botanical Interests which is quite a treat.  There are seven different varieties that are color coded in one seed packet.  Also, I am growing Principe Borghese.  If […]