Life begins in the garden

Category: Flowers

  • What’s Growing Now – March 2023

    March started and ended with rainy weather. Nice for the green growing plants. Our Miner’s lettuce is thrilled with the cool wet weather! All the deep moisture should give us an abundance of wild flowers in the next couple months. Sounds from the garden this month were on the wet side. We heard some happy…

  • What’s Growing Now – January 2023

    January had a nice wet start giving us a good dose of much needed rain. We had a few storms with 1 to 3 inches of rain each. Some heavy rain at times, but no problems right around us. Now we are drying out, even had Santa Ana winds blowing a few days with humidity…

  • What’s Growing Now – October 2022

    Our weather has cooled off with night temperatures into the 40’s (under 10 Celsius) and pleasantly warm days in the 70’s (low 20’s Celsius). Summer vegetables are slowing down and it is time for a transition to cool season winter crops. Harvesting Now Winter Squash has been harvested with about 20 pounds of mostly Kabocha…

  • Saffron Growing Experiment

    Saffron is often considered the most expensive spice. The spice comes from the stigmas of the saffron crocus flower. Each flower has 3 of these long threadlike structures. It takes around 500 of these threads to make one gram, or about 170 flowers. A kilo would take about 170,000 flowers! Growing Saffron Saffron is a…

  • Garden Gallery – Spring 2022

    Spring Flowers on Display We had a great display of spring flowers from a small wildflower bed next to our herb and vegetable beds. The gallery below has some of our favorites. Click on a photo to open a larger view. You can scroll through the images as well. Below the gallery is a description…

  • What’s Growing Now – August 2022

    August has decided to end on a high note. I am writing this on August 31 and the high temperature was 111 degrees with humidity below 10%. A bit hard on garden plants, but they are resilient. Our Garden Harvest The summer veggies are in full production mode. Eggplants have been prolific this year, most…