Category: Cucumbers

  • Gardening Diary – August 11, 2021

    Gardening Diary – August 11, 2021

    Sharon with harvest of Tomatoes, Summer Squash, Zucchini, Cucumbers and Eggplant. Picture taken on August 11, 2021. Sharon harvested Tomatoes, Summer Squash, Zucchini, Cucumbers and Eggplant.

  • Gardening Diary – August 3, 2021

    Gardening Diary – August 3, 2021

    Weed-eated the walkway next to the original bed and the walkway across the back that splits into walkways on either side of straw bale beds #1-4. Sharon Harvesting with Lily Picture taken on August 3, 2021. Sharon harvested Cucumbers, Eggplant, Yellow Summer Squash, Yellow Crookneck Squash, Tomatoes, and Zucchini. Other…

  • Gardening Diary – July 29, 2021

    Gardening Diary – July 29, 2021

    Tomatoes, Yellow Crookneck Squash, Asian Cucumbers, Cucumber, and Zucchini Picture taken July 29, 2021. Sharon harvested Tomatoes, Yellow Crookneck Squash, Asian Cucumbers, Cucumber, and Zucchini from the straw bale beds.

  • Gardening Diary – July 24, 2021

    Gardening Diary – July 24, 2021

    Purple Smokebush bed Picture taken on July 24, 2021. Weeded parts of the Purple Smokebush bed focusing on Violets. E.g., weeds along the street were not removed but were sprayed with Ortho Groundclear Super. This herbicide was also sprayed on weeds in our driveway and on some Bermuda grass that…

  • Gardening Diary – July 23, 2021

    Gardening Diary – July 23, 2021

    Cucumbers, Yellow Crookneck Squash, Zucchini Picture taken July 23, 2021. Tomatoes Picture taken on July 23, 2021. Harvested the vegetables shown above.

  • Gardening Diary – July 20, 2021

    Gardening Diary – July 20, 2021

    Butterfly Bush bed Picture taken on July 21, 2021. Finished weeding and laying down a double layer of cardboard on the Butterfly Bush bed. Finished covering this bed with 11 2 ft3 bags of pine bark mini nuggets mulch. Cucumber and Tomato Picture taken July 21, 2021 by Sharon. Sharon…

  • Gardening Diary – July 15, 2021

    Gardening Diary – July 15, 2021

    Tier bed. Picture taken on July 15, 2021. Several years ago, we had some heavy rain which pushed down some branches of one of the Red Altheas [Hibiscus syriacus] onto the Janed Gold Arborvitae [Thuja occidentalis ‘Janed Gold’ Plant Patent #21,967] in the tier bed. Typically, when a heavy rain will push…

  • Gardening Diary – July 8, 2021

    Gardening Diary – July 8, 2021

    Tomatoes Picture taken on July 9, 2021. Sharon pruned and provided more support for the Tomatoes in the straw bale beds. Sharon harvest from the straw bale beds. Picture taken on July 8, 2021. Sharon harvested Tomatoes, Cucumbers, Eggplant, Yellow Summer Squash and 2 other unknown kinds of Squash. Right…

  • Gardening Diary – June 12, 2021

    Gardening Diary – June 12, 2021

    Tomatoes Picture taken June 12, 2021. Sharon staked 4 more Tomato plants and Sharon planting Vanilla Marigolds [Tagetes ‘Vanilla’] Picture taken on June 12, 2021. planted some Vanilla Marigolds in various straw bale beds. Trellis for Cucumbers. Picture taken on June 12, 2021. Sharon and I set up a trellis to…

  • Gardening Diary – May 21, 2021

    Gardening Diary – May 21, 2021

    Buddha Belly [Jatropha podagrica]. Picture taken on May 21, 2021. As we finally moved from early spring time weather but to middle summer time weather, moved the Buddha Belly from the porch to the same place in the second bulb bed that it occupied last year. Straw bale bed #7 Picture…