Garden Pic Wednesday: Winter Broccoli & Peppers
Today I mowed the back yard--not so much for the grass, but to pick up the pine needles & bay tree leaves. You can get a look in today's photo of what my kind of pine needles look like: they have 2 blades and range from 6 to 8 inches in length. Today's Garden Pic of the Week is my Winter Broccoli & Peppers: The bell pepper has been there all summer, but now that fall is here, it's taken on fresh life again! I had to dust the broccoli yesterday to get of some cabbage worms I saw, but soon the temperatures will cool off enough to prevent that problem altogether! I also have a young tomato I grew from a sucker and planted late there next to the stake. It's blooming now. I decided to draped large clear plastic Yard bag over the stake to cover the tomato to create a hot-house for it. I thought it might like it better. That means, however, I have to fertilize the flowers myself! The bedraggled pair in the back garden are also blooming again and one has...