You’ve guessed it – it’s time to talk about the Butternut pumpkin plants. Thankfully, it’s not all mumbles and grumbles this time. In case you’ve forgotten, we have two butternut plants right now. The first is quite matured, having been … Continue reading
We got the Brazilian Bachelor’s Button (Centratherum intermedium) plant as a pass-along cutting from a family friend. The single cutting has since grown and literally spread out as a low-lying bush that is slowly encircling our big Birds’ Nest fern. … Continue reading
It was too good to be true. All the cucurbitaceae plants I’ve grown have gone through what I like to call Braxton Hicks contractions – they keep practising before the plants successfully set fruit and get to harvest. So, I … Continue reading
I have my gardening buddy, The Weed, to thank for some new “residents” in the garden. He has been more successful with seed-sowing than I have, and so I now have these new seedlings to nurture here: In retrospect, I’ve … Continue reading