Picture Sundays: Squash Tower
...The tower of squash at the annual Heirloom Exposition in Santa Rosa, California. I went again this year. Were you there? What did you think?...
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Picture Sundays: So Much Squash
...Just a few of the hundreds of varieties of squash on view at this year’s National Heirloom Exposition....
The Three Sisters
...being that the beans nitrogenate the soil and climb up the corn while the squash provides mulch. All plants are useful and you end up with an interdependent, self-sustaining beneficial feedback loop. Some people add a fourth sister, Rocky Mountain bee plant (Cleome serrulata) which attracts pollinating insects for the corn and squash. We added a drip irrigation system on a timer (more on that in a later post) which has seemed to keep the plants h...
Gardening Mistake #12: The Annual That Ate Your Backyard!
...turtium. This year, though, the serial killer prize goes to our meandering squash plants, which are doing their best to cover everything in our yard less than knee high with their 15″ leaves. This morning I wanted to cut back a squash vine which had done some damage to a patch of yarrow and was reaching for my succulent zone. Erik threw his body across it and said I’d have to prune him first. As we all know, he’s a little crazy when it comes to sq...
Dry Climate Vegetables
...om it’s also host to an incredible array of pollinators. Squash This rogue squash is a real surprise. It popped up in a new raised bed and is already almost five feet long. I’m not going to let this one grow because I don’t have the space to take a chance with a, most likely, bitter squash. Mustard I threw a bunch of expired mustard seeds from a friend’s pantry around the yard in the fall. This was a bit foolish. Mustard has popped up everywhere....