Maybelline's Garden

Vote today! If you took the time to vote today, thank you.  If you don’t have time today, maybe you can vote tomorrow.  Voting ends o...

American Movie Classics has created a series called Mad Men. It's about an advertising agency in the early 1960s. Currently, they are h...

These guys look like they are trying to make a break from the garden on a very hot Saturday morning. They appointed the big guy as their l...

Here’s a view of the day’s events. Aphids are taking over the pumpkin patch. I started blasting them with water Saturday morning. By aft...

Mercy! Photo courtesy The Women’s Colony Blog .

I love when it comes time to turn the calendar to October. It’s a signal that the furnace I know as the Great San Joaquin Valley will begin...

I’m canning today. This morning I harvested from all the tomato plants – Ace, Celebrity, Better Boy. I wish I had a scale to weigh the bask...

June 10, 2009 Planted Cinderella pumpkins. June 15, 2009 Five days after planting. July 11, 2009 Thirty one days after planting.

It’s firecracker time around here. Time to make salsa. First, I wash, skin, and seed all the tomatoes that make the grade. Those that don’t ...

That means caterpillars. I hunt these guys regularly. You think they would be easy to find – but they’re not. I find their “leavin’s” and l...