When growing fruiting vines, what a gardener wants to see are – not just any flower, but female flowers. Male flowers are normally pretty, plentiful and have their uses, but those more rare female flowers bear the promise of things … Continue reading
We’ve been enjoying eating the Red Lady papayas for a few weeks now. The fruits ripen at the rate of perhaps one fruit per week, and there have been only two incidents with the birds so far – once, it … Continue reading
It appears to be grasshopper season again. I had a few small sunflowers growing in a planter, and noticed that the leaves were being eaten. My first conclusion was that it would be caterpillars, but I discovered a pair of … Continue reading
Growing the winter melon plant for the first time, I have no idea what to expect of it, but I figured I couldn’t go wrong with an A-frame trellis. I was running a little low on building materials at that … Continue reading