Too Many Tomatoes

The other day as I was scrutinizing the melon patch counting cantaloupes and deciding what an be pulled and what can be left, I spotted...

By September the garden has reached the stage of her life where she can no longer be considered fresh and full of promise.  The best she can...

A first for my garden: the ornamental sweet potato vines are flowering This has been quite an extraordinary growing season.  All the...

Dahlias  We've had almost 4 inches of rain in the last two days and it has come all at once, not in a steady sprinkle.  Having so mu...

An impressive amount of water comes off of our lawn. Kiss the grass seed good-bye.  Good thing the sale is still on.

Maybe I won't have to water for a day or two.   As soon as it let's up I need to run out and pick the cherry tomatoes before t...

When I moved into this house over 13 years ago, the front yard was a dark, dank, shabby place.  It was lower than the road and fully shaded...