Persimmon harvest

We have several persimmon trees, this one is one of the biggest trees and bears the most fruit this year. I picked a bag full this morning and it tasted so good freshly picked.

First bloom in 10 years

It has been so long since I last blogged here and when checking my blogroll, I see that a few bloggers have taken a long break as well. To be honest, it look me a while to figure out how to post photo and feel like a newbie here. This is an Epi plant from…

First Cucumbers Harvest

I didn't have as much time to work in the garden in the last few weeks and the weeds are growing a lot faster than I can pull it. The cucumbers are coming along and I need to thin out the leaves so it wouldn't be so thick. I absolutely love fresh cucumbers and my…

June 2nd Garden Update

Lots of work and progress in the garden this week; it's only been a week and things start to look very different. The weather is dry in our area, we only had 1 short shower last week. The Shishito peppers love the heat and have gotten so much bigger than last week. I didn't have…

Gardening Progress

I'm still not done planting all my vegetables. I was making a good progress until fellow gardeners gave me more herbs, plants, seeds and it's quiet a challenge to find space for them. This year, I only plant the vegetables that I want to eat, the Purple Perilla came up this year and I got…

Planting in Progress

I didn't get to plant until early May and I'm about 50 % done planting. These are the pepper seedlings, a bit small but I think they will survive. The cucumbers are coming up nicely. The Chayote plants are from last year's fruits. The tomato seedlings are small, we had heavy rainfall yesterday and not…

Seedlings

We had a lot of rainfalls in our area, almost every weekend. This will be the first sunny weekend in a long time and it's time to clean the garden and prepare the planting bed. On the meanwhile, I started the seedlings a few weeks back and it's starting to sprout. I purchased my seed…

Seeds

The best seeds are the ones from the previous year's garden, I have to say that I'm not as disciplined collecting the seeds and something to work on this year. The Chayote fruits are from last year's garden, I keep them in the garage sitting on top of the potting dirt. They are ready to…

Garden 2018 Update

I had a good harvest this year, despite not having as much time to spend in the Garden this Summer. The Chayote harvest was in the middle of November, this plant likes the cool weather and not ideal if we had an early frost. This year was not too bad, I had a good turn…

Garden 6-9-2018 Everything Planted

I was late in planting my garden due to the cold weather and didn't get started until the end of April and just finished planting a few herbs last week. Last week we didn't get any rain, which meant watering the garden every day. I was glad to see that we have some rain this…

Garden 5-29-2018 Rain

I don't know if my garden needed a break from the rain, I know I do. It has been raining for several days now. Everything is growing rapidly, even the straw starts to grow grass.  I would like to be able to go out and work in the garden again, I still have lemongrass to…

Camping on Memorial Day Weekend

This year we decided to camp at my house for Memorial Day Weekend since we have a big enough space to park the camper. My dad and sister bought their RV on Friday and stayed for the weekend. My goal is to make a private campground in the wood but it will take a lot…