It’s A Thing here in Virginia that those who can get a ripe tomato by the Fourth of July have…
Tag: tomatoes
Back home
My daughter decided to move to Utah to be closer to school and to try and get her driver’s license…
Angry birds
I went out this morning to spray because I saw some bug damage yesterday during my daily walk-through of the…
First blossom! And the winner is…
I was surprised to see my first open blossom today on a tomato plant that I grew from seed! So…
Cucumbers planted!
Jared finally fixed the broken trellis, so I put in my little baby cucumber plants today. I had planted three…
Catchup day
Today is garden catchup day. It’s been too cold to work, so today we made up for it. We cut…
Tomato planting day!
It finally came! I’m like a kid waiting for Santa, except instead of being excited to play with toys, I’m…
Self-control when gardening
It is taking every bit of self-control I can muster to avoid planting my vegetables out right now, even though…
Italian grape
The Italian grape tomato plant — last of the seeds I stole from Italy six years ago, and the only…
Bear Claw blooms
The tomato plants I ordered from Laurel’s Heirloom Plants in California came in on Saturday! She had them packaged really…
Great weather but…
It’s beautiful outside today! It’s 70 degrees with sunshine and a light breeze — almost couldn’t be better weather. It…
Finished drip line, planting, sharing
The weather was unseasonably warm yesterday, which means a thunderstorm is coming, That meant I needed to focus on getting…