Grono Green Acres

07/24/2024

One zucchini and one ZUCCHINI lol we eat smaller size ones or preserve them, the massive one is my seed zucchini. Going to take care of it tomorrow.

07/24/2024

The babies are growing!

07/21/2024

As a gardener, I find I learn all the time. Sometimes good, sometimes not so much, but always learn. I am also the type of gardener who has “let’s find out what happens” philosophy. And I am also a very forgetful type of gardener, I have a good excuse for it and it is not even my age 🤣 So when you put everything together, you get random sweet potato sprouting in your greenhouse. I honestly have no clue when I put it there, but I assume it was at some point in a spring. It also could’ve been the same potato I tied to start inside for over a month and nothing happened so I threw it in a a ground to decompose. But now I have sweet potato shoots coming up. I decided to separate one at first and realize because it is so deep in a ground it already has roots - great! It went to a different place in a greenhouse. Today I took 3 more shoots and repotted them in a very large pot, will see what happens I guess. If starts to cool off in a fall they can still go inside the greenhouse, so maybe we will end up with some sweet potatoes 🤷‍♀️ I guess I have to start sweet potatoes about 6 months in advance 🤔🙄
I find it really funny that most of my weird successes all happened by accident 😂

07/21/2024

Peas harvesting with my helpers. A lot of sampling were had by all involved. Most of my fingers are even still attached 😂 These two will
never say no to helping mom in garden, and occasionally they will help themselves to some veggies of their choosing 🤪🥰

07/20/2024

A few garden thins. As now I am solely a weeder of the garden and no longer a pollinator of zucchinis (bees told be to mind my own beeswax 🤣🤣🤣). I have volunteer tomatoes among my zucchinis that started to produce these lovely fruit. Gorgeous nasturtiums and marigolds. Found out that I actually somehow managed to plant butternut squash 🤷‍♀️ I was fully convinced it was buttercup squash but here it is. My zucchinis are now on second round of big zucchini explosion, one plant will have 4-5 I think at the same time 🤪 but I have a plan!!! My Zeppelin (zucchini that I left for seed) is getting huge! When do I pick it?
I have one more squash that most likely is spaghetti type but really who knows with me running this show 🤦‍♀️🤣
And lastly, looks like buckwheat will actually produce. Not sure how much fun it will be picking it, but I will try. Maybe just save it to use it next year, really like the result of having it in my garden.

07/18/2024

Garlic scapes are in a dehydrator to make garlic scapes powder… the smell 🤦‍♀️🥺🤢 but I gotta say, we won’t have any vampire problems tonight! 🤣

07/18/2024

Just a few peas 😁 not sure why our peas grew to 7 feet tall, but they are also producing well as well. Some for supper and some went strait to the freezer for the winter.

07/17/2024

Our heat pump Junco babies are here! Welcome to the world littles ones!!!

07/15/2024

Morning giggle 🤭

07/14/2024

Yes we have weeds, but we also have very happy plants, plenty of pollinators, our soil isn’t eroded by rain and we don’t have any standing water. We love our garden even with weeds.

07/13/2024

View from living room windows and morning look at the garden. So nice to see so many pollinators enjoying our garden! Things in bloom right now are squash, zucchini, borage (their favourite), nasturtiums, peas, tomatoes, buckweat, sunflowers, cucumbers, marigolds, calendula and beans. Attracting and feeding our pollinators was our goal when we planted all the flowers and buckwheat in our veggie garden. I think it is working!

07/10/2024

This is the way I pollinate my squash. Here are some pictures to show you difference between male and female flower. These are my zucchinis and they are producing as you can see.

07/09/2024

Look at my new friend! There are a few of them on my peppers helping with aphids ☺️ enjoy my little friends!

07/08/2024

Early morning harvest, it began!

07/07/2024

Just love borage and little pollinator attendants lol mix of everything in this part of the garden but I love it!

07/05/2024

Harvest for supper - zucchini, kale, Swiss chard, green onions, parsley, oregano and dill. Going to be so yummy!

07/04/2024

Today’s harvest of squash bug eggs. One adult was disposed of. I am sure there will be more to come. Tuck-tape is the best thing!

07/02/2024

Tomato p**n 🤭

07/01/2024

Some garden pretties!

06/30/2024

Our little baby zucchinis, they aren’t going to grow any bigger since we only had female flowers so far so I decided to harvest them and make something with them instead. Garden gnomes wanted their share too 🤣

06/29/2024

06/28/2024

This is an interesting part of our veggie garden. First of all, this is a huge zucchini, to the left we have a squash growing. In between, you may see a bit of colour, we have nasturtiums (yellow ones here), to the right there is Borage, marigold and calendula coming up. There is also a tomato plant somewhere in a mix - compost volunteer. Everything is massive and coexisting really well! Oh yes, there are also sunflowers on the border. It is more spectacular in person 😉

06/26/2024

The garden is so very happy after the rain. Trimmed up all the tomato plants (suckers, low leafs) and checked up on the flowering. It is pretty incredible to see all the fruit setting! Can’t wait 😁😁😁
Our zucchini plants are huge! We had a few flowers already on each plant, I am pretty sure that they didn’t get pollinated but zucchini is actually big enough to eat, so will see in a day or two if they miraculously got pollinated (we had no male flowers) and if not we will harvest and enjoy baby zucchini.
And then there is the rest of the garden including 5’10” peas! 😂
Oh, and squash bugs are here! 🤢

06/23/2024

Our first little tomato formed in a greenhouse. This variety suppose to be early variety(Siberian), but I have planted them all in a same time, so will be only early by a a week or so, but hey, I will take it.
And here is sad part about the garden with morning, we have half a dozen zucchini blooming but not a single male flower in sight 😢 It is one of those “looks good on paper moment” but I am ready to cry. Zucchinis they are on would be absolutely gorgeous, but without male flowers they will just rot and fall off. Now I need to know, should I make some milkshakes? Will that help??? 😂😂🤣🤣

06/20/2024

Garden is looking pretty spectacular! Zucchini just exploding, I think it is one plant that really don’t care how wet or dry or hot it is lol tomatoes started to bloom well, multiple varieties too. Strawberries are ripening! 🥰🥰🥰

06/17/2024

Zucchinis are getting ready! Don’t think we ever had zucchini THAT early!
A few tomatoes in a garden are started to bloom, can’t wait!!!!

06/16/2024

Love our garden this year!
Strawberries are producing and hopefully will start ripening soon. Herb harvest to add to chicken water, and second harvest went I into dying ruck for the dogs. A few radishes, I want to reseed but I have a feeling we are getting into our hot time of year so won’t be anything but leafs. And gorgeous chamomile that reseeded itself and now producing like crazy. Will have to add more to our herbal garden so it just comes back every year on its own.

06/15/2024

06/13/2024

Garden is gardening! First potato bloom and first tomato bloom, many more to come.
Haskap is ripening, for some reason only one bush so far while the other two are still growing.
And a few things from the garden - peas (from greenhouse for now) and pok Choy to add to my supper.

06/10/2024

Such a happy garden after the rain. I must say, things are growing pretty crazy so far this year! (Knock on wood) It is only early June and my zucchini looks amazing. I pinched flowers in it to let it grow just a bit bigger before letting it fruit. Tomatoes are getting bigger by the day, a lot of them are setting flowers. Yesterday was “pinch off bottom leafs and suckers” day lol gave me a chance to take a good look at each of them and pinch off flowers from a few smaller ones. Sunflowers are getting good size already, I did start them inside since I find we get things eat them before they reach two inches. I did have to buy cabbage seedlings since I can’t grow it from seed for the life of me! They did double if not triple in size since we got them. Broccoli is growing well, so is kale, Swiss chard, spinach and Bok Choi.
No idea what’s going with our potatoes lol they are massive this year! I don’t remember a year when they were that big this yearly! Usually only our container poatoes are these big. Herbal garden getting bigger by the minute, and I harvest herbs regularly to add to chicken water. And lastly, you can’t have a garden without a thousand tomato volunteers lol they came from our compost pile that now is littered with tomatoes.