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…

Weekend Garden Progress

We finally have a break from the rain, it was a nice weekend to get things done in the garden. The weather was cool, perfect weather for gardening. This is a row of bell peppers and hot peppers. PaNoy gave these plants to me at the temple and I found out that they are the Chayote…

Early May Garden

We have been getting a lot of rain in our area, it's raining again today so I couldn't weed the garden. Fortunately, it slowed down and drizzled when I went out to take these photos. I planted the peppers yesterday and it was sunny this morning when I left for work. I covered the peppers…

April Showers

I started planting in the garden last week. The cucumbers didn't make it, it was cold at night and super hot during the day and now it's starting all over again sowing cucumber seeds in the garden. The lemongrass stalks that I purchased from the Asian Market started to take roots and I planted them…

It feels Like Springtime

It's Spring and I'm like most gardeners that want to start planting in my garden. I know it's too early in our area, we still have some cold nights and the last frost could be as late as the last week of April. My seedlings are growing, I re-pot the young cucumber plants in bigger…

Seedling and Cleaning up the Garden

I wonder if I started my cucumber seedlings too early, the first week I was worried that they won't sprout but now I wish they won't get too tall. I'm very fortunate to have big windows and plenty of sunlight during the day. These are the National Pickling Cucumbers, I hope that they won't be…

Certainly Early Spring Here

Perhaps it might be 6 more weeks of winter up North, but certainly not in North Carolina. Regardless of the groundhog's forecasting being right or wrong, it's still very interesting to watch and I'm rooting for early Spring. It's a lot warmer during the day here but still very cold at night. I guess the winter…

August Garden

August is a busy month, I've been working on cleaning the backyard and hauling loads of woods and trash left by the previous owners to the landfill, and still have a few more loads to do. The backyard used to be the dumping ground for them and in time I'm sure it will break down and…

Weeds Love My Garden

I'm beginning to wonder if the weeds loved my garden more than me, I spent my evening weeding and when I came across this one the answer is clear. The blueberries are thriving amongst the weed. This is the first year that the birds left me some berries and it's delicious freshly picked from the bush. I'm…

Garden Update

I was busy putting up the fence in the last two weeks and didn't have much time to care for the garden but it's thriving. The wooden fence posts are up, the garden gate is up, but obviously not protecting the garden from my visitors out there. It has been raining so much in the…

Gardening Happy

I didn't have much time to clear the land since the weather is getting warmer, the plants need to go in the ground. I was working from the front of the garden to the back, patiently making rows of planting bed one by one. The ground was hard and filled with rocks, it was very difficult…

New Garden

This garden has been abandoned for at least 10 years, just standing here I could see that back then it was a simple country garden with rows of corn and vegetables. I like the idea of having a simple garden, when I came to see the house a year ago I never expected that the…