I purchased an orange tree, lemon tree, and lime tree about two years ago.  They are miniature trees and I grow them in pots and put them in the garage for the winter.  The lemon and lime trees both produced fruit the second year, but the orange tree was a bit different.  The first year, […]

Growing limes turned out to be easier than I had anticipated.  I bought a lime tree last year and it produced its first crop of limes this year.  Above is the tree in the spring when the fruit started to get noticeable, and below are the limes.  There were actually twelve, but I used a couple […]

It seems like I’ve been away from this blog forever.  I could blame my time away on the grammar class I recently finished, but it would be a lie.  To be truthful, I’ve been distracted by more than just trying to remember the proper use of a colon: to amplify what comes before it.  Well, […]

My favorite garden season is spring.  I like working in the dirt and planting the veggies and flowers for the new season.  Of course it’s even easier when I don’t have to plant.  Here is my garden, pre-planting: You can see the onions and carrots that overwintered.  I need to thin the onions and let […]

My new garden at the new house is doing pretty well so far.  A first year garden is fun but not at the same time.  It’s fun because you can experience the pleasure of designing and building something new.  The drag is having to start from scratch on the soil.  My soil has quite a […]

I don’t know what first attracted me to gardening. My family never had one when I was a kid. We always went to the grocery store for vegetables. Actually, I don’t remember eating too many fresh vegetables growing up—our vegetables came out of cans. Now that I think back on it, I have no clue […]