Fresh, ripe avocado Do you ever look at the avocados at the grocery store and think - cake? Neither do I, but somehow I got on the newsl...

Sweet basi l   As the late summer days shorten and night temperatures cool, basil plants slow their growth. If you've kept your pl...

Great sculpture of Green Man, the ancient gardener image. Like I promised in the last blog post, I've been away at the 2nd annual Na...

Ripe figs picked today Figs are not a crop many gardeners think of in our part of the country (the Ozarks Mountains of Missouri/Arkansas...

Just a few of the pepper varieties I'm growing. If you've been a follower of my blogs for very long you know I have a great love...

Friends from Springfield, MO and British Columbia came for dinner on Saturday. I like to cook and it's fun to fix food for people who kn...

Cornstalk horse, Blue Eye, MO Fall isn't here yet (thank goodness), but some end of summer garden art is showing up around the count...