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Well, so much for my perpetual spinach-type Swiss Chard this year. The deer have eaten them down to nubs. Fortunately, they haven't t...

This is what happens when you don't harvest your artichokes. I only got two buds on my one artichoke plant anyway, so I think the g...

The larvae of the Black Swallowtail butterfly are known as "parsley worms" because they feed on members of the Apiaceae family, wh...

I dug up the potatoes on Monday before we got the rainstorm. It was a little disappointing, but that was my fault. I planted a lot of my pot...

Here's one of the things I did with some of the harvest of nice green spring vegetables I got in April and May. I didn't grow a...

Once again, the Greening Moon lives up to its name. Yesterday we got over 4 inches of rain, which was the most rain we've gotten since O...

I missed the Bluebonnet Moon, so here's an update on my garden to show how it's been coming along in the two months since I last pos...