I’m sorry to say the chard died due to my neglect of my garden. I’d asked Mr. A to water last week, and he got out there every morning faithfully for me, but I assumed he knew what to water.  He didn’t realize the shelter over the Swiss Chard was there for a reason, [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I just found out about a fairly new non-profit organization which allows backyard gardeners to donate their extra produce!! I have had such a bounty of eggplant and I can only eat, share and freeze so much of it, I am thrilled to find a place that will help me find food pantries that [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

11 Lavender Touch Eggplant 2#12oz 3 Scalloped Squash plus four unpollinated baby squash 1#11oz 7 Pickling cukes 1#8oz 2 regular cukes 12 oz 3 Tomatoes 9 oz 4 zucchini squash 3#1.4oz 1 Yellow Crookneck squash 4.4oz 14 Raveena Eggplant 1#9oz

For breakfast I cut up two eggplants I had from last weekend’s harvest, [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

For most of my life I was a night owl.  When I was a young child, I had a terrible time getting to sleep and it was even harder getting up to go to school.  As a young adult I worked normal day time hours and it was hard getting up early for [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

I know, I know, I just posted yesterday about my garden harvest over the weekend.  Well, actually it was on Friday morning that I got all those lovely veggies from my garden.

Monday morning I didn’t have to be at work-work, I was working at my boss’ home so she scheduled me to get [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

This weekend I had a great harvest from the garden. 12 pounds of produce! My poor harvesting basket was creaking and swaying for the weight. I didn’t dare carry it by the handle, I had to hold it right up close to my chest.

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4 Ambassador Zucchini Squash [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

Just a couple of photos, but I’m pretty happy so far with what I’ve been able to harvest. Last weekend I gathered the vegetables shown in the photo below: 1 summer dance cucumber, national picking cucumbers, lavender touch eggplant, raveena eggplant, yellow crookneck squash, bennings tint scalloped squash, ambassador zucchini squash, and a few [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]

My hay twine post was included at the May 28th My Gardening Patch Carnival.

Thank you My Gardening Patch for the work you put into this carnival. It is a huge carnival, take a few minutes to pop over and check it out!

Mrs. Accountability

I have settled into a routine of watering the garden on Monday and Wednesday evenings during the week.  I usually don’t take a look at the garden on Thursday night, so by Friday morning I haven’t seen the growth and activity for a day and a half. I was so excited on Friday morning [CLICK TO CONTINUE...]