Garden – Ray's Blog

Two months into retirement

I’ve been quite busy…

Last week we stopped in at Lowes one afternoon and got some flowers and a couple of tomato plants. Yesterday[…]

It’s been awhile since I did a garden and yard update (okay, over two months nice I’ve posted anything), and[…]

Up at 5am — we’re usually up by 2:30am, so this is late for us — and we have our[…]

A brief look at our progress. Click the picture or link for today’s full gallery.

There’s some kind of fungus in our garden. Likely was in one of the bags of soil we got. It’s[…]

Fresh-from-the-vine strawberries are the best! Hopefully these plants (there are 3) will produce some.

This is a baby Calamondin. Calamondin on Wikipedia

The flower has bloomed and shrank, and now just below you can see the squash beginning to form.

Here’s a fully open squash flower. Some ants are way down there enjoying themselves. Hopefully they’ll take some nutrition, and[…]