Onions are helpful. They tell you when they want to be harvested, and that is right about now. When onions bulbs are done growing, the green tops slump to the ground and they just lie there. The bulbs have done all the growing they are going to do. When most of the tops have fallen on […]

Cherry tomatoes are ripening now. They are tasty, plentiful and require almost no work in the kitchen. In fact, they’re good as a snack just as they are should you walk by them in the garden and want to sample. All cherry-sized tomatoes are indeterminate, which means the vines keep growing and producing new fruit […]

Too much green? Here are some blooms that can solve that.

We are in the middle of raspberry picking. Of the fruits we grow, these are my favorite – both for their flavor and because they are simple to grow. We planted our bed about 40 years ago, and while it needs to be weeded and the canes that produced fruit removed every fall, growing raspberries […]

Everything is early. The flowers have been profuse. Irrigation has been crucial.