It is incredibly exciting the first time you plant something new and it delivers a fruit, flower, or vegetable you have never experienced. It’s been a while since I have felt this but this weekend my harvest (and consumption) of pawpaws exceeded my expectations. It has been a long wait. I planted three pawpaw trees […]

The tomato season was short. It was too cold, cloudy, and rainy in June for early fruit and too cold in the evenings after Labor Day for the fruit to ripen. Time to pull plants. It was a good season as my use of straw on the underlying beds almost eliminated any diseases that are […]