Mary Mary quite contray how does your garden grow?

I have been terrible at keeping up my end of the blogging but I still want to share our trials and tribulations of organic gardening...

Plants look tired but they're growing!

Here in, South Eastern NC we hit the 90ties back in May and it hasn't let up. Normally it starts in July. Not to mention no rain and no pollinating insects. So we water out garden and keep it healthy.

It grows and grows, it flowers but no fruit. We've noticed an absence of pollinating insects. So with our cucumbers we have pulled off a male flower and touch it to all the female flowers. A paint brush is suppose to help to. Wouldn't you know it we got 2 cucumbers. Tomatoes are a different story. They have both male and female parts so they self pollinate but if it's too hot they get sticky and can't do the job. We've had only one very tiny but tasty tomato.

First cucumber of the year!

Thankfully last week we had 3 days of rain. Which yielded 7 cucumbers! I've even noticed a bumble bee or two. I should have pinched the lemon and cinnamon basil flowers back so I would have more tasty leaves to eat but it seems that's where the bees are drawn too. The more the merrier! We are keeping our garden watered, so as it cools come fall, we will have our crops. It will be a long wait but we are hoping it's worth it!

Don't give up!

2008 article honeybee article is interesting.

Our sweet tiny tomato.

Our indoor experiment is going strong.