little backyard garden

   The little winter garden is starting small. I have some leftover onions and carrots from the Fall, and new plantings of red cabbage, char...

I finally got around to digging the sweet potatoes. This year was the first year I planted sweet potatoes; I started with a little plant fro...

The satsuma mandarins have been good - not super sweet but still very good. There have been aphids on the new leaves, but the tree has still...

Last season I planted a sandita vine (Melothria scabra) as an experiment to see how this little fruit tastes. The word "sandita" m...

I took this video with a simple compound light microscope at 400x magnification. The first few seconds of the video are probably the most...

The little pineapple guava bush has been producing well. Very low maintenance. We've been having delicious pineapple guava quickbread. Y...

The squash vines take up more space than I expected, but the squash are well worth the effort. cooked squash