Category: Gardening

Tomatoes! Cherry, Porter, Golden Jubilee, Beefsteak, Green Sausage, Black Cherry. Everyone knows how good home grown tomatoes taste. I learned this year the correct way to plant tomatoes for Tucson summers. You pick all the leaves off except the very top ones. Then you plant the entire now-bare stalk underground too. That stalk will grow… Continue reading Bountiful and Bountifail (Garden) Part 3

Attack of the giant radishes!! This is a Round Black Spanish Radish. It is a giant radish, literally. I had no idea when I planted these that they got so huge. Their skin is black, so that is not dirt you are seeing. The inside is crisp white. The stalks coming out of it are… Continue reading Bountiful and Bountifail (Garden) Part 2

I started off in spring on the right foot. After many errors in the past year, I ready to put into action what I had learned. I bought the correct soil (I had been using too hot of stuff and burning my seeds and plants). I strategically plotted out where to plant things instead of… Continue reading Bountiful and Bountifail (Garden) Part 1

I thought it’d be fun to introduce Gary. He is a Cucuzzi Italian Edible Gourd, however, he would not be very edible at this size. Too tough. He is currently my largest vegetable in the garden. As you can see from the picture, he is 24″ long, but that does not include the curvature. Eventually,… Continue reading Gary the Gourd

What a beauty!  My personal fave is the bean tower.  Or maybe it’s the out-of-control tomatoes. Or possibly the squash pile.  Or the fact that my chard is now pickable! The gourds, cucumbers, watermelons and sunflowers are well on their way too! I currently have 5 eggplants growing, a million green cherry tomatoes, and some… Continue reading A Flourishing Garden

Isn’t it magnificent? There are so many different things growing! Tomatoes, zucchini, Japanese eggplant, green beans, radishes, jalapeños, yummy peppers, rainbow chard, gourds, herbs, sunflowers, zinnias, marigolds, nasturtiums, watermelon, cucumber, okra, strawberries and…I think that’s all. About half of these are still in the sprout stage, but are growing quickly. I can’t wait until everything… Continue reading Little Baia Update