Happy June!! It’s time for Our City Homestead Garden Update! Even though we live in the city, we can still garden! That’s what our garden updates are all about — to share with you what we are growing in the city and how we are doing that! I am so glad we finally have our…
Category: In Our Garden

Welcome to the Gardening Season – May 2024
Happy May!! Welcome to the 2024 Gardening season. I am looking forward to gardening — that’s one of the things I love most about summertime! This year, we opted to not garden at the community garden (it feels a little weird to not return to the community garden after three years), and instead turn our…

September 2023 Garden Update
This month gardening at the community garden has definitely had its challenges. Let me share with you what’s happened this month. September 6 and it has seemed to take forever for the sunflowers to bloom. Looks as though they will soon open and we are looking forward to them blooming. Not only are the seeds…

August 2023 Garden Update
Welcome to our garden! We have been gardening in our plot in the community garden as well as in a bunch of containers and a garden bed at our home this season. It has been hot this month with a few rainy days. I will share with you all of the updates throughout August. Let’s…

July 2023 Garden Update
Let’s take a gander at our garden throughout July and see its progress! Let’s get to it! Our garden update begins July 2 and here’s our white patty pan squash – also called sunburst squash. I’ve never grown a white one before, always yellow, so I’m excited to see all the flowers and squash growing!!…

June 2023 Garden Update
Welcome back to the garden!! I will be sharing everything about how our garden is doing throughout the month of June! I am looking forward to beautiful weather, sunshine, no smoky skies, birds chirping and of course gardening! Let’s take a gander at the garden this month! It’s June 5 and the weather has been…

Welcome to the 2023 Gardening Season
Welcome to the 2023 gardening season!! We are back at the community garden again this year! Our spring this year has been quite warm. Many gardeners in our community garden began planting their plots in April. With it being only May, our weather has been unseasonably hot and that has definitely led to some gardening…

Checking out the Garden – April 2023
We thought we would head to the community garden and check out our plot. It’s been quite warm, throughout April, so we are looking forward to seeing how the garlic and asparagus did over the winter. “I love spring anywhere, but if I could choose I would always greet it in a garden.” — Ruth…