Over at This Garden is Illegal blog Hanna has started posting her 2008 tomato tasting report. Hanna has been doing this for awhile and hers is one of the best tomato tasting on the web. She lives in the suburbs of Cleveland, OH. In her blog she ” waxes on and off about her garden, [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 22, 2008
Train your vegies up.
I like to train my cucumbers, squash, melons, and other vining vegetables up using bamboo tee-pees. As the vine grows I just keep tucking the foliage into the tee-pee. The fruit develops of the ground and withing easy reach. this is a great method for vegetables grown in containers.
July 10, 2008
Northern California shows it’s true colors
Here is the weather service map for northern California. Colorful isn’t it? Those colors are watches and warnings which are for my neck of the woods. They include, excessive heat alert, red flag warning, hazardous weather outlook, and a special weather statement. The smoke from the fires has made working outdoors a chore. Monica and [...]
July 10, 2008
Squash flowering, but no fruit
It’s common this time of year to hear people lament that the squash plants they have planted are flowering but not fruiting. What’s happening is that squash plants have both female and male flowers. What this means is the plant must first produce flowers of both sexes so the bees can pollenize the flowers. Once [...]
July 2, 2008
A new blog
This is the second blog for The Golden Gecko Garden Center. Our first blog “The Blogging Nurseryman” has become my way to address issues in the nursery business as well as other odds and ends I want to talk about. That being said we felt that we needed a new blog to discuss with you [...]
