Well, we didn’t get to eat home-grown bananas like I thought we would. The fruit stayed small, and never even got close to ripe. Here’s a pic of the tiny hand of bananas when I cut them off because nights were starting to freeze. That was mid-November. I’m still learning how to do this right, […]
We’re going to eat some of our own, home-grown bananas this year! (Crossing fingers that everything goes well…). Honestly, I had pretty much given up hope that we’d have edible bananas from our plants, even though I’d seen some bunches on other banana plants in the area before. You may recall that we had a […]
It’s seed starting time! And I want to show you why and how I get my seedlings in the sun as soon as possible. One of the common questions I get is how to keep seedlings from getting leggy and flopping over. Almost always, this happens from growing them indoors in weak light. Maybe you […]
You may have noticed my ongoing banana saga, with my recent update about how a flower started to appear on Christmas day. Sadly, it did not survive. And it wasn’t the freeze that killed it! On January 25th, we had a freeze that got down to about 30 degrees. I placed two radiant heaters under […]
Oh my gosh! We have bananas forming right now, in the middle of winter! Many of you have seen my previous post about growing bananas in Sacramento County – it’s actually my most popular article lately, so apparently a bunch of you are considering it. And you should! It’s a fun plant to grow, and […]
You may have seen our post from last year about our huge flowerbed across half of the front yard. This year, we decided to complete the landscape by mirroring that addition across the central walkway to the other side of the yard. As I sit here on July 5th, I can say it’s been a […]
One of the reasons for moving back to northern California was to garden through the winter, and it hasn’t disappointed. This is the first winter with our new, large flowerbed in the front and our raised veggie beds, and we took advantage of those spaces to grow more winter flowers and a few vegetables. We […]
Sometimes, it’s just useful to take the lazy approach, right? Like propagating cuttings in water. Yeah, you’ll read a lot online about how you should dip cuttings in rooting hormone and place them in a sterile medium, waiting several weeks to see if the roots are growing. But sometimes, it just works to put them […]