It won’t be long before my wandering pumpkin takes over a second raised bed area in my garden. Yes, Wanda is growing by leaps and bounds. The phrase definitely describes Wanda to a tee, stretching (I’d say anyway) as much as a foot in the past five days. Continue reading
Wanda the wandering pumpkin keeps stretching out a couple inches a day as evidenced in the above photo, which shows the pumpkin Friday night (bottom) and Sunday night (top). I love having a physical marker to make comparisons — in this case I use the edge of the cage holding the pepper plant at far left. I sure hope it stays healthy.
Also starting on the pumpkins are the cute little curly Qs. I am so looking forward to oven-roasted pumpkin seeds this fall.
A few random photos on this late August Saturday — Wanda the wandering pumpkin stretches out more each day, plus marigolds and zinnias whose flower power remains strong through the dog days of summer. Continue reading
You know why I talk about tomatoes so much? It’s because I love them a lot and in previous gardens, I’ve always been able to grow a lot of them. So when I came across this photo I posted on Facebook a couple years ago, I knew I had to share it. It was on this day in 2013 that I posted it, giddy that I was finally getting pails full of tomatoes in one picking. Continue reading
It’s amazing what an effect one day of cooler temperatures can have on me. I think one of my tomatoes may be staging a comeback and I feel like that’s because it’s 6 p.m. and it’s only 76 degrees. Amazing how good 76 degrees feels at that time of day after being used to it being in the upper 90s. And did I mention it’s sprinkling, too? Continue reading
Flower eye candy to brighten up a ho-hum Wednesday. Enjoy!
Still holding out hope for one of the two tomato plants in this pot. The volunteer zinnias, on the other hand, are doing just fine.
My pumpkin plant seems to have an attraction to the pepper plant in my garden. As much as I try to train it to grow toward the center of the raised bed (photo below), it keeps heading toward the pepper plant (photo above). Continue reading
While we humans may not be too keen on the heat streak of late, it seems the 100-degree temps are OK with some of the vegetation in my backyard. Continue reading
A bumble enjoys a zinnia in my Wisconsin garden in 2013.
Chocolate Chips and Chaos 