there is something more motherly in growing fruits and vegetables totally from seed.
Haha, I completely agree! 😁
Cucumbers are the best. Cucumber plants really keep going, don't they?! We've been giving away truckloads of them this year.
I'm really glad to find out there's nothing wrong with my squash plants. The previous years, somehow I never noticed the leaves wilting in the sun. So when I first saw it this year, I really thought something was wrong. 😂 Guess I noticed it this year because of the extreme hot and sunny weather we had in spring. They look great in the morning, and in the evening, but they're so sad to look at during the day, lol. Glad to find out it's a normal thing.
I saw a picture or a turmeric plant in a another garden journal. They are surely beautiful.... and a great addiction to the garden.
Haha, yeah cucumbers can make anyone feel confident as a gardener! I think ours might finally be on the way out. Pulled a few off yesterday and they seem to be getting quite sad. I'll keep them up to support my cowpeas, though, as I'm pulling off pods daily and saving up the dried beans to get enough to use in a meal.
Heat will definitely zap the life out of the plants in the middle of the day, but as long as they bounce back and get enough water many of them are pretty resilient, right? It is funny to watch even on a cloudy day they can go from limp to perky seemingly immediately as the clouds pass over! Nature sure is fun to watch. :)