Cucumber plants like to sprawl around, and in doing so, manage to hide the occasional fruit from us. The most recent escape artist succeeded in evading our palates by dangling over the side of the trough the plant is growing … Continue reading
Monthly Archives: January 2014
The hot topics of discussion about our garden this week have been the merrily-growing pumpkins and the lone watermelon. The pumpkins – now apparently joined by another pair of fruits – have been growing at a phenomenal rate. Just compare … Continue reading
I’ve been cussing like a sailor about the pumpkin patch. First, the fruit I bragged about in my last post suddenly started turning yellow and is now rotting away. At that, I gave the plants the evil eye and told … Continue reading
Looking back now, I feel so naive when I remember how worried I was that our pumpkin vine wouldn’t have enough flowers for pollination. The single vine has grown and branched out so much that it has become a rather … Continue reading