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Tag: Okra

  • What’s Growing Now – October 2023

    October was still quite warm with a few days of cooler weather indicating fall is on the way. The major harvest this month was digging 50 pounds of sweet potatoes. Summer crops like beans, squash, peppers, okra and tomatoes are still producing. For flowers, the okra, zinnias, coreopsis, hollyhocks, chocolate flowers, feverfew and marigolds continue…

  • What’s Growing Now – August 2023

    August is a full summer month with hot dry weather, except this year hurricane Hillary decided to head our direction. Before Hillary passed through we had temperatures well over 100 Fahrenheit (40 Celsius). The storm passed east of us but lowered the temperature significantly and dropped 3 inches or more (7-8 cm) of rain in…

  • 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…