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.
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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 […]
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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 Heirloom Japanese Long Cucumber
The Japanese Long Cucumber are doing great. We planted these under one of our rows of grapevine. With a little coaxing they trellised themselves up the grapevines and the wire that was there for the grapes. We added a couple […]
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