The apples are growing well although this is an off year for the tree. They are not ripe yet but that doesn’t stop the Boy Bops from eating them. The apple tree got hurt really bad in a storm a few years ago. A big portion of it broke off due to heavy wind. It [...]

My husband bought the Concord grapevine back to life. They are so good, I can’t wait until they are ripe! He trained some of the vines to lead from the main vine/tree to drape across the garage. We are hoping for a canopy effect. It’s not full enough yet but it is pleasant to sit [...]

I planted a mint plant here last year, you might recall. It thrived for a while, then died before summer was over. The part of it I bought indoors to over-winter died also. Everyone told me no worries, it will pop back up again in the spring and be all over the place. Well here [...]

Two of my squash had definite powdery mildew. This one looks like it was just about to go into full bloom with it. I wasn’t sure if it would be able to fight it off but I pulled it anyway. This was a few days ago, I checked them the remaining squash plants and they [...]

I had a poor turnout of squash last year so I am excited to have so many baby squash growing. Here is one of them: Part of the patch: This blog entry written by Trula Breckenridge. Thanks for visiting Family Footprint!

This is our blackberry patch that’s right next to the garden. Some people buy a blackberry plant from a nursery but our patch was started a few years ago by the kids throwing in that spot blackberries we got from back in the woods. This patch has doubled in size since last year! I had [...]

This was the very last of the pea plants I had. I have such a hard time letting them go, but their season is over and I needed the room for my okra plants. I stuck it in one of the bottles I keep on my sink for decoration. Goodbye peas! This blog entry written [...]

Remember my sprouting potato? I finally got it going. My plan was to use solely tires but we found this big old-schoolwashing pot in the basement when we did our clean-up. I still don’thave tires so I’m using this to get the potato safe and covered so it can grow. It had so many sprouts [...]

Remember my post about the squash growing in the compost? Well I have had squash popping up all over the place in the garden as well. I pulled most of them. Here’s the latest, I found this growing out of the bottom of a pot I’m growing beans in. I’m going to leave it alone, [...]

Spinach, as you may know, is a cool-weather growing plant. This means it grows best in the spring or fall. Hot summer weather makes it go to seed. I harvested all the spinach in my ground garden and pulled the plants out. I had a few spinach plants growing in pots on my back porch, [...]