Backyard Farming the Natural Way

Archive for the ‘Growing Vegetables and Herbs’ Category

Until I can get back to filming my own garden adventures, I thought that in the meantime you might enjoy this video on Square foot Gardening.

Despite having to help the pollination along with my cucurbits, I am getting some nice veggies none the less. Here is one of the big zucchini that I picked this morning. I did have a problem with tiny worms boring up underneath some of my zucchs, but my compost worms will relish those scraps. They are not near as picky as we are and so nothing goes to waste around here.

We have had quite a heat spell here in the Southeast and my summer squash and zucchini seem to be producing, but many seem stunted and/or fall off the vine (as illustrated in pic).  The plants are very healthy otherwise, and though there are many possible factors like excessive heat, the most likely suspect is the lack of the bee pollinators.  Read the rest of this entry »

You can see here that my heirloom bell peppers that were planted in one gallon containers have clearly outgrown them. It’s actually quite amazing that they reached this current height of 2′ and were quite productive in such a small pot. However, the pots were transpiring too much water and the roots had pushed to the edge of the pots. Read the rest of this entry »

I just had to brag a little bit on these wonderful cherry tomatoes. These guys consistently rank at the top in many tomato taste tests and I concur as to their taste. Currently I have two 5′ plants that are loaded with these tomatoes and I eat them like candy. They are certainly about the best tasting hybrids that I have found, and because the seeds are hard to find, I have snipped the growing shoots off a couple of these and transplanted a couple more plants. Read the rest of this entry »

My small garden is now thriving with cucumber, squash, zucchini, okra, tomatoes, peppers, and more. Of course, this does not count the many varieties of cooler weather greens, broccoli, artichoke etc. Read the rest of this entry »