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After watering the garden this morning I snapped a few pictures of some of the vegetables we have growing in our backyard. Out of everything we have planted right now, I think I’m the most excited about finally having zucchini again. We had to plant zucchini seeds like 5 times this year because of all Read More >>
Yesterday I went ahead and pulled up the sugar snap pea vines along the fence and harvested the remaining pods. This area along the fence has always been an “iffy one”. Sometimes plants flourish there and other times not so much. The peas that grew along the fence this year were no comparison for the Read More >>
Carlie from Virginia sent in this photo of one of her zucchini’s and was wondering what had happened to it. Well Carlie, it’s called blossom end rot. 🙁 I’ve had to deal with blossom end rot in tomatoes before, and it is sooo frustrating. You think you are going to get tons of beautiful red Read More >>
Is it just me or does everyone and their brother start locking their doors around mid-summer because people are trying to sneak sacks of zucchini in peoples cars? I hear church parking lots are a prime spot for this sort of activity. Brief description: Zucchini is a summer squash. It provides awesome yields and can Read More >>
This weekend past weekend one of my garden chores was to pull up the dying zucchini plants. It took all of 5 minutes, and then zucchini season was over. Just like that. I was actually hoping to get one more round of giant zucchinis so I could doorbell ditch them onto my neighbors porches, but Read More >>
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