News of a new blight, which I had not heard about until people started talking about it on yesterday’s pesto threads: A potentially fatal fungal disease called downy mildew has been attacking basil plants in New York, New Jersey, Ohio and Florida. Gardeners are worried that it could spread farther throughout the summer, turning delicate …
Garden Chats
Pesto Madness
I have so much basil that I’ve decided I’m going to make some pesto for dinner. Figure I might as well get the benefit of my herb garden before the raccoons or rabbits. Toasting the pine nuts as we speak. Plan to use it on this very nice wheat pasta I picked up the other …
Wascally Wabbits
Just checked my garden because I had harvest envy, and apparently the rabbits ate my damned peppers. Guess I need to get a fence and some fox piss.
Another Day in Paradise
I seem to have lost my wallet this weekend. The last time I remember seeing it was Saturday morning at Petco, and I can not find the damned thing anywhere. I guess I wanted a new wallet anyway. One of you all claims to have harvested this: I almost want to call bullshit (like growing …
Garden Update and Open Thread
Can’t believe it has been a week, but here is the latest garden picture: Also, I now have two helpers with yardwork: I have no room to talk, but she really has lost her girlish figure.
Let It Grow
Some signs of progress in the garden: The tomato is almost the size of a baseball. I’m psyched about the peppers, and it looks like I am going to have a bunch of them this year.
Garden Update
Quite a good bit of growth in the little garden that could: Here it was just a week ago.