Category Archives: Gardening

We’ve harvested three zucchini so far. 3.5 oz., 3.3 oz., & 6.3 oz.. Delicious. The straightneck has started to bloom too. The tomatoes are doing well and the bell peppers are starting to grow more. I’m not sure that the peppers or the basil are getting enough sun, though.

Our tomatoes, both the Emerald Evergreen and the Thai Pink Egg tomatoes, are blooming. I’m looking forward to having fresh tomatoes from our porch garden. We also harvested our first zucchini from the Cocozella di Napoli. It was delicious! There are two more that we’ll probably harvest soon and many more flowers developing so hopefully […]

The garden is in bloom! The Cocozella di Napoli is blooming and so is our rose bush. The plants in the Earthboxes continue to do well. We have two new lettuce plants just coming up, the tomatoes and squash plants are getting larger and larger, and the basil and bell peppers are starting to take […]

Our largest/oldest zucchini plant has opened it’s first flower. Several of the others should be opening soon. Hopefully this will lead to fresh zucchini before too much longer. All-in-all the porch garden is going well. We’ve been fighting off aphids with the simple squish ’em method of pest control. The plants are all growing larger. […]

One of the lettuce plants was lost yesterday. The stem broke off at the soil. It was very thin at that point. I think it just broke under it’s own weight, maybe with a bit of encouragement from the wind. When Kate found it it had been lying out in the sun and was quite […]

Yesterday I turned around the squash Earthbox to give the smaller plants more sun. The first Napoli plant has grown so large it was shading the others too much. With it in the back the younger plants should get more sunshine. That is, if it gets sunny. We’ve had cloud cover most of the day. […]