“I’m not dead!”

Good news  it looks like the yellow pear tomato plant is clinging to life!  This morning when I checked my garden before leaving for work, it looked perkier than it has for a while.  Let’s just hope that the severe storms we’re supposed to get this afternoon and tonight don’t kill it!
 

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Mediocre garden progress

The weather here has been cold and kind of nasty, so my garden isn’t faring as well as I’d like.   The chilliness isn’t the worst part– it’s been raining so much that there’s been hardly any sun for my poor plantlings.  It’s not terrible (yet), but not great either. I went and took [...]

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Strawberry pollination

I’ve been thinking about the strawberry flowers recently and wondering how the flower turns into the fruit.  Tomatoes are self-pollinating.  With my cucumbers, I had to pollinate the female flowers with pollen from the male flowers by hand (see here and here and especially the comments here).  So I started to wonder about the strawberries.  [...]

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Peanut butter greenhouses

The past few days it’s been much cooler than you might expect for a midwestern May and it’s also been pretty windy.  I was pretty worried about the little tomato sprouts, because after their first night outside, each sprout had at least one wilted leaf.  So on Sunday, I started looking around for something to [...]

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Two random pictures

I finally got around to getting some more photos off of the camera memory card and labeled.  So here are a couple random pictures to share…
Chocolate Flowers:

I made these little chocolate flowers for a baby shower for my dear friend J.  They are based on the much more beautiful flowers made by Fruittart (you can [...]

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The sprouts get planted

On Saturday, the weather was gorgeous– sunny and warm. gardengeekette decided it would be a good day for the sprouts to get planted in their new homes. It is pretty windy on the balcony and she was afraid that the sprouts might snap if they weren’t planted in the big pots soon. [...]

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The sprouts take a trip

Once upon a time, there were four tomato sprouts who were getting big.

Their caretaker, gardengeekette, decided it was time for them to go on a big adventure. So she picked them up and headed out.

It was their first foray into the sunshine as they exited the building where they’d first germinated.

They crossed the street [...]

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Strawberry flowers and other sprouty fun

Wednesday was rather damp in the morning… I was working from home, so I took a break at one point and went out to investigate the goings-on of the garden. The rain was so pretty on the leaves of one of the lettuces in the Mesclun…

I really need to learn which leaves match [...]

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Thankful Thursday

God is good.  
I am thankful for the fellowship with other believers that we have had this past week:  campfire fun, small group, lunch with C, Bible study, and dinner with 3/4 of the V family.  I have been so encouraged and also challenged by these times.  
I am thankful that God kept me from [...]

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Lettuce woes

My black-seeded Simpson is not doing very well.  I’m not exactly sure what the problem is.  Ever since I thinned them, the sprouts have languished– one of them has even flat out died.  They don’t seem to have any self-support the way they used to, and I usually find them sort of lying down.  Perhaps [...]

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