Zucchini for children’s garden
September 29, 2007 | Filed Under garden | 1 Comment
One of the easiest things to grow in your garden is zucchini. If you have young kids, aside from green beans, this is one of the best plants for children to plant because it is fast growing and fast bearing. It germinates fast so the kids can see within a few days the plantling break through the ground. You can see the leaves and stalks grow a measurable length daily. My girls did this and would actually bring out a measuring stick to see how much their plants grew in a day.
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Is it acorn?
September 21, 2007 | Filed Under garden | Leave a Comment
We had lost the original seed package for this squash and we had so many that didn’t come up that we really had no idea what variety of squash this was. We had to wait and see what came up to see if it was butter nut, spaghetti or one of the other packs we bought last spring. Their blooms look pretty much the same so it was hard to tell what it was at first. Then, the fruit started developing and started taking shape.
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The Pumpkin Patch 2
September 17, 2007 | Filed Under garden | Leave a Comment
Continuing on the pumpkin patch…
The pumpkins, all four plants in all, started to stretch backwards and bloom.
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Pumpkin Patch
September 11, 2007 | Filed Under garden, home | 2 Comments
Early in the spring, The Clone thought she would play with clay and build a wall. She is the only one of my three daughters who will come out and play in the yard. The other two stay in for various reasons like it’s too hot, too cold, too many bugs, some thing’s on TV, you name it.When she first started building her ‘wall’, it was going to be a fortress for her toys. Then she thought about flooding it. She had visions of wetting the clay until it melded together into a wall, then coming back and filling it with water like a swimming pool for her toys.
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Ginger
September 6, 2007 | Filed Under garden | 1 Comment
I’ve always cooked with ginger but have never tried to grow it. I didn’t think it would grow in our planting zone. That is, until I met someone who’s had continued success planting ginger and harvesting the roots before the first frost.
Actually, what I just said was wrong. Most of us commonly refer to the edible part of this plant as ginger roots. But that’s wrong. It is really not a root, it is a rhizome. A rhizome is a horizontal stem of a plant from which the roots and shoots from its nodes.
Ginger, also known as Zingiber officinale is thought to have originated in China but is widely used by different cultures worldwide. Ginger can be eaten fresh as a condiment as in the Oxtail Soup we had in Las Vegas, in sauces as in the escabeche sauce over fish, or even ginger juice to name just a few uses for this spice.
I had a piece of ginger that had started to shoot and was getting a little dried out so I decided to put it in the ground just to see what would happen. And what do you know, it actually started to grow! We’ll have to see in the fall if any roots rhizomes formed.
