Strange Gardener: First summer harvest

A STRANGE GARDENER: Adventures in raised-bed vegetable gardening

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Yippy! Today I harvested the first of the summer produce - just over 1 lb of zucchini, a handful of green beans, and a single jalapeño pepper.

Zucchini

Bush Green Beans

Choosing containers for seed starting

Containers for seed starting are widely available at garden centers or through garden catalogs. There are enough choices that one can...
To kill or not to kill, that is the question

I spent some time in the garden today, harvesting a jackpots worth of cherry tomatoes when I came across THIS: Tomato Hornworm Tomat...
Move over winter, spring is coming

Old man winter has been rough on us this year. After dumping about 2 feet of snow just a couple of weeks ago, it is hard to beli...
Problems with growing zucchini - part 2

They're baaack! Squash bugs. How do I know? I found their eggs on the backs of some of my zucchini leaves. Typically, squash bugs begi...
Another summer comes to an end

Garden in early summer Alas, after 92 days, summer has officially come and gone. As we say goodbye to summer and welcome in fall, I wan...
The hose is MY rain dance

We are getting a nice rain after not having a drop of water fall from the sky in the last couple of weeks. It seems that whenever I turn on ...
Cabbage worms

As soon as I see little white butterflies with greyish-brown dots on its wings visit my garden, I know it is time to protect my vegetable g...