Not so Squished
It's not news that The King (desert king fig tree) is getting too tall for us to easily bring into our garage for the winter. It has grown approximately four feet taller this year, but there is a significant gap between the first junction of branches, and the new growth - 22-inches of space! I managed ...
Yep, that's my garden. The forecast for this week is upper 20s, but of course we can't have one predicted dry week. There's rain in the forecast, but at least today is gorgeous. You can imagine how delighted I was to find this happening in my pepper patch! This is definitely a new development. This is ...
It's almost mid-August, and the days are noticeably getting shorter. Yes, it's kind of depressing. We've had some short stretches of hot days, but compared to last summer, it hasn't been a hot summer. It's definitely been a much wetter summer than last year. Combine this with me starting my seeding a month later than ...
Everything is green! The Marcato peppers are a very nice size - all green! Shishito peppers - green. At least I can harvest them green. Another new variety is the Doe Hill pepper. They are round, and green! Remember my Arbol pepper plant that looked all gnarly? It's grown out of that phase (or the thrips have moved ...
I honestly never feel I need to say much when it comes to talking about my gazanias. The photos speak for themselves. Their behaviour is so graceful, and I would love to one day capture it in time lapse.
Unlike bees, I am terribly afraid of wasps. Don't you agree that they have a very menacing look, like they are deliberately out to taunt and terrify? That's what I see. Wasps keep me out of my own garden, and I notice them in the mid-late afternoons when the sun is out and my garden ...
My no longer fruit producing Alpine strawberry plant remains on the potting table. The leaves have been yellowing, so I fertilized it a few weeks ago, and the leaf colour is slowly improving. What remained a big mystery for many weeks, maybe even over a month, has been the hole-punched leaves. I had posted a ...
The title of this post isn't directly related to the feature photo, but I couldn't resist posting the photo of the beautiful pasta dish. This morning I was craving some food from Alimentari, specifically long pasta with a simple tomato sauce. I've actually been thinking about it ever since we visited the shop for arborio ...
There are different things you can do with garlic scapes, and since hubs said he was bringing home lamb chops, I thought why not make some pesto? I have a lot of fresh basil that also needs to be used, so this was a perfect pairing. Here is a good recipe. I used about 7-8 scapes, ...
I loved the beauty of the Gazanias last year, so this year I seeded again (New Day mix). I usually seed in a seed starting medium, and it grows to a certain mangled looking stage and then it's almost like it freezes in time and does nothing more. Last year I seeded on February 29, ...