(If only it was really that easy!) It was a good afternoon for getting my hands dirty. It feels like a late start this year – it’s been too cold at night until just the last few days! And of course now that it’s time, I’m going to be out of town for 90% of…
More Frankenfruit!
Yesterday I posted about my new creation, provisionally named Frankenmato until I can judge his characteristics. Today I thought I’d share an even more ridiculous(ly awesome) Frankenfruit – the Tree of 40 Fruits. This tree was created over five years by grafting together branches from 40 different types of stone fruit including peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, cherries, and…
Frankenmato
This story starts with one of my favorite flowering plants ever: the giant Pinot Noir Hardy Hibiscus. It blooms 8-10″ across, and it has overwintered in this giant pot for the past 3 years. It was always quite slow to start showing any green in the spring, and every year I’d think it hadn’t made…
the first month
It’s been a rainy few weeks, and both the garden and I are pretty happy about it – it’s nice to be able to go away to sunny Texas for the weekend and know that your plants are being taken care of by the sky! The zucchini plants are going nuts, as they always do. So…
2015 garden, starring:
Also starring: In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. ~Margaret Atwood
Indigo Kumquat
This is the first year I’ve grown this cherry tomato called “Indigo Kumquat”. The name intrigued me, and the tomato looked pretty in the picture. But when the tomatoes on my plant started ripening, they looked really crazy! They turn almost black on the top half, while the bottom half is still green, and they…
unique parking-lot-garden pests
Every garden has its own unique problems, but I think my latest issue may be uniquier than most. One of the local inhabitants of my garden absolutely demolished one of my zucchini planters and shoved a bunch of the other plants around in their pots. As I was contemplating whether an army of squirrels had…
taming the jungle
We’ve had a ton of rain this week, which was great because I didn’t have to water the plants. But when I when out to rescue them from this weekend’s beautiful sunshine, I found a ridiculous, and very tangled, jungle. So I pulled them all apart and surveyed what exactly was going on where.When I…
two weeks of rain
June 1: June 15:
A Dirty Soul 