By George! - A Blog!

Just after the break of dawn something wonderful is happening in the corn patch. Try and be there, and you’ll be amazed.
In the still air the corn tassles will be throwing out clouds of yellow dust and it will be floating down to the silks of the plants. Pollination is happening. If it takes place […]

We naturally get excited when we see the first squash fruit, the first corn cob, the first tomato on the vine, the first bean. In fact we get excited about anything that is “the first”. Usually, we eat it.
But there are good reasons not to–unless you live in a desperate situation. Subsistence […]

I spent the morning raking up damp leaves. They were manageable after a night of gentle rain and it was not hard work. In fact it was pleasurable when compared with dry dusty leaves that seem to evade gathering by a rake and when you try to put them in a bag. Damp leaves […]

When, in your enthusiasm to get a new season’s gardening started, you sow seeds or set out plants in the full knowledge of what they are and where they came from.
For a short time you’ll remember these important facts but most of us can’t tell, at the end of the season, which variety was the […]

The bible says “there is a time and a season for all things” and there is a time coming up for planting the warm season plants. We might even say the hot season plants. Apart from the landscape plants, there are four or five vegetable plants that enjoy hot weather and hot soil. […]

For the past three years we have carried out trials to find suitable varieties of vegetables that can be successfully grown in the desert. The findings are passed on to our gardeners when we meet with them and through the newsletters
We determined the best time to set out onion seedlings (not the dried out bulblets […]

Of all of our vegetables, onions can claim to be the most diverse and interesting. There are the big “hamburger” kinds, scallions, tender “spring” onions, “multiplying” or bunch onions and even a kind of bunch onion that produces hot little bulbils on the top of its stalks. Among the large bulbed varieties we have white, […]