It is the end of May here in the Deep South. I just did one of my many daily “tours” through the garden(s), and I saw: Lots of green tomatoes on the tomato vines. I saw miniature Ichiban eggplant on my container eggplant. My larger eggplant variety has several blooms on it and has grown [...]
Years ago, I was reading an article in a gardening magazine. This is funny. I was flipping through the pages, and there was a full page ad for some plastic garbage bag company, I don’t know, GLAD or something like that. Now the kicker is this. The garbage bag was stretched out ready to be [...]
I live in the South. We grow tomatoes. We grow them indoors, outdoors, on our patios, in our greenhouses, we grow them. Lots of varieties. We love them. I love them. Everybody grows at least ONE tomato plant here. Even my neighbor that rarely goes outside or gardens, even she plants one lone solitary tomato [...]
LB found a neat garden supply store that has these wonderful white plastic 50 gallon drum style barrels for only $15 each. They are great for growing potatoes and aging compost. I love growing potatoes in a barrel. If you want to cut right to the chase then click here to see a bullet list [...]
I love animals. All kinds (except snakes). I wish I liked good snakes, but I just can’t, I’ve tried. Normally I just don’t fool with corn. It ain’t worth it. I have grown it, but we have lots of birds and squirrels. This year, I said what the heck, let’s do it again. I hesitate [...]
I love to garden. I really do. I’ll plant a vegetable anywhere. No kidding. I LOVE container gardening in addition to my earth plowed garden. I have a traditional garden with potatoes, squash, eggplant, tomatoes, cucumber, watermelons, canteloupe, zipper peas, okra, and lots of pepper plants. I also have another flower style garden. It has [...]
