Is there anything cuter than a baby cucumber? Well, I think a baby watermelon is actually much cuter. And, potentially sweeter. C’mon baby fruits! I’ve had the hardest time with both of these plants as they apparently need much more water than I’d been giving them (at least in our typical-for-this-time-of-year 100° temps. But now…
Kitchen Gardening
No Waste: Cooking With Sweet Potato Greens
Remember way back at the beginning of this gardening season, before daily 100-degree heat advisories set in? I had finally filled up my raised beds with soil and, lacking any other planting opportunities, I plunked some sprouting store-bought sweet potatoes in the ground in my enthusiasm. Yeah, they didn’t look very promising. They got even…
No Waste: Capturing The Moment With Rain Barrels
In Central Texas, we’ve got plenty of sunshine. Also, plenty of bugs — this time of year you feel like you’re wading through a sea of grasshoppers as you walk through the yard, as they scatter with high jumps all around you. What we don’t have enough of is rain. It’s really quite dire. People…
Escalation of Hostilities
I went out to the garden the other morning to find signs of… an intruder! It has rained and some of the footprints were especially deep, like something fairly heavy, and cloven-hoofed. That liked to munch off the tops of my vegetable plants. It was unmistakable, my white-tailed enemies had encroached upon my territory. It was…