Apple Tree Flower Blossoms!

My 3-in-1 apple tree sapling has produced flower blossoms. Oh, the shades of pink are simply too stunning to describe! As mentioned in my previous post, I started out with two of these 3-in-1 apple trees and the second one died, so I was not sure how the remaining sapling would do. From the looks of things, [...]

Autumn Garden: A Season of Review

I just finished watering my front and back yards. The front looks fine, lawn is still green and my various bushes and plants are thriving. That’s the good news.
The bad news? My back yard had a combination of hits and misses.
The hits:  Most of my roses (primarily hybrid tea) are standing strong (a few perished), [...]

Slow Summer Crops This Year

It’s been a very odd year for my container garden. I finished tending to my garden chores for the day about an hour ago. Though I started planting my tomatoes, bell peppers, and jalapeno pepper early in the summer, most plants, especially the tomato plants, have been as slow as molasses to grow bigger or [...]

Nagami Kumquat Tree, Fruiting

I can hardly believe it but it looks like one of my Nagami kumquat trees is fruiting! I purchased and planted this tree in the ground just four months ago. Click on the photo to get a detailed view of the tiny green globes dotting this petite tree! It was in flower a little over three weeks [...]

Watermelons, Two in a Container!

I’m hoping that both will grow to their full size. The smaller watermelon appeared about 2 weeks ago but I wanted to give it time to be sure that it was indeed a fruit (and not still an unfertilized female ovary) and that it had grown enough to have a good chance of lasting. I love [...]

Watermelon, My First One, Growing!

My first watermelon is growing! It was a mere one week ago that I posted a photo of a female watermelon blossom’s ovary, with hopes that it would be fertilized with the pollen of one of the many male blossoms on the vine. The “stem” below the male blossom is thin, versus the swollen ovary below the [...]

Green Zebra Tomato Plant, Fruiting!

Ah, I remember the day I planted the seeds for this plant just mere months ago, and now one of my Green Zebra tomato plants is fruiting. This is the first in my large collection of 5-gallon containers that will all (hopefully) produce tomatoes.  I’ve not seen this particular type of heirloom tomato in my [...]

Pear Tree Grafts

It would seem that the graftings of other varieties of pear tree to the primary “host” pear tree are thriving (this is a 3-in-1 tree, 3 varieties of pear). A friend wondered if these might be suckers of the host tree, but I’m suspecting not.  Upon closer inspection of this sapling, the leaves of the host [...]

Female Watermelon Blossom

Notice the ovary attached to this female watermelon blossom!  I am very hopeful that a helpful bee was able to pollinate this blossom from the many male blossoms on this plant. This female blossom suddenly appeared and the blossom was already closed when I found it. With some good luck, this may develop into my first homegrown [...]

Watermelon Plant Growing in Container!

Oh, I can’t tell you how excited I am! This is my very first successful effort in growing watermelon from seed. It is looking very healthy and I’d planted several seeds in other containers that have been “quiet” so far.
I am hopeful that I’ll be enjoying at least one yummy watermelon by summer’s end!