The Lemon Queen Sunflowers are stretching toward the sky. It makes a great picture when they get this tall, the creamy yellow of the flower against a clear blue sky. Grow your own Lemon Queen Sunflowers with Heirloom […]
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Yellow Pear Tomato in Bed Turning into Gold
The Yellow Pear Tomato in the raised beds are turning gold. All of these pictures were taken today. That’s not rain on the leaves – it’s been so long since we had rain. We had just watered them. The Lemon […]
Continue reading »First Cocozelle Squash
Here is our first Cocozelle Squash of the season. This one is very new with the bloom still attatched. We always plant these a little later. Cocozelle sell well at markets because they are attractive and something a little different.
Continue reading »Growing Native Daisies
The daisies that grow in the Ozarks are blooming. They grow along roadsides and yards and at the edge of woods. They light up fields with bright shining white clusters of flowers. We cultivate these growing them in our flower beds, […]
Continue reading »Growing Japanese Long Cucumber – How they measure up.
Japanese cucumber are a long slender cuke with great crisp texture. Ours average from 12 – 18 inches. Yes, We measure and weigh our veggies occasionally, it’s a gardener thing. Like a fisherman bragging about the fish he caught. Grow […]
Continue reading »Yellow Pear in bed setting fruit
The Yellow Pear in bed has been setting fruit. This Heirloom variety of tomato is very prolific. The branches are just covered with trusses of tomatoes. Grow your own Yellow Pear Tomatoes with Heirloom seeds from AzureDandelion.com.
Continue reading »Growing Yolo Wonder Pepper Almost Ready
The Yolo Wonder Pepper is setting fruit. This sweet bell pepper has thick walled 4 lobed fruit that start out green and turn to red. It is one of my favorite pepper, the variety our family grew when I was […]
Continue reading »Growing Purple Beauty Pepper
Purple Beauty Pepper Plants are doing well. We have mulched around these with pine chips from the chicken coop. We are still going to need to weed, because the grass is comming up through the mulch. We didn’t put down […]
Continue reading »Growing Lemon Queen Sunflower
Lemon Queen Sunflowers are so beautiful. This heirloom Sunflower produces medium size creamy yellow flowers on 5 to 7 foot stems. Sunflowers are great to shade vegetables in the garden. We planted some of ours flanking Yellow Pear Tomato plants […]
Continue reading »Planting Long Red Cayenne Pepper in Bed
Long Red Cayenne pepper starts planted in a small bed next to our new asparagus bed. We started these in a wooden box outside. These are planted next to Petite Orange Marigold flowers. Grow your own Long Red Cayenne Pepper […]
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