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 […]

General Gardening Outdoor Grow Room

Killing Weeds

This past weekend I was working in my garden and my neighbor’s mother, Kate stopped by to check out my vegetable garden.  She is from New Zealand and wanted to see what grew well around here.  I was a bit embarrassed because my walkway around my raised beds had quite  a few weeds growing.  My […]