Click on a thumbnail picture below to see the full size version. 55 Entries. Friday, January 7 View Page Hey Scott here is the family tree of some crosses that i made in 2016   Saturday, January 15 View Page Here i am with my 21 foot amaranthus plant last year. The seeds are the size of a grain of sand   Saturday, January 15 View Page These are amaranthus seedlings   Saturday, January 15 View Page My amaranthus seedlings i started jan 1 I think starting them feb 14 might be the best time ?   Saturday, March 12 View Page I forced blomed some hyacinth bulbs for some indoor spring smells.   Saturday, March 19 View Page Look at who is on top after round one !!! I better soak up the bragging right while i can because we know it won't last very long.   Saturday, March 19 View Page Look at who is on top !!!   Monday, April 18 View Page Yes the weather still sucks around here. It's been a cold spring so far.   Sunday, July 10 View Page With this inflation these days you need to improvise !!!   Sunday, July 10 View Page Yes I'm still alive. I almost didn't grow this year after the last two disasterous years that I had and then having a bad sinus infection that started at the end of March and lasted till late may. I went through the motions and still planted my garden plants indoors but I could not get inspired to grow no mater what I did. finally may 20 came along and I just took what I had and put it in the ground and hopped for the best. If thing we're to go bad I had no interest to save the season but fortunately everything went good and now the garden is doing good and now I'm getting inspired to grow again. When things go good it sure can help fix your attitude !!!   Sunday, July 10 View Page This is how my season started. On planting day When I started to rototill my garden I found this nest of baby rabbits inside my fenced in garden. All I could think about was that they were going to have a field day eating every little plant that I was going to plant.   Sunday, July 10 View Page Fortunately my starter plants did very good this year. Here I planted a row of broccoli then a row of cauliflower and then 2 rows of peppers. They were the best starter plants that I had ever started   Sunday, July 10 View Page This year I'm trying half of my competition plants as grafted plants. Im hopping that their is some advantage to grafted plants so this year I will have some good side by side comparisons   Sunday, July 10 View Page So far this has been a good growing year. no flooding rains like the last 3 years so far and everything is looking great so far.   Sunday, July 10 View Page I'm liking what I see in the grafted plants so far. They seem to grow a little faster and look a little stronger than a non grafted plant.   Sunday, July 10 View Page I'm growing giant and tall sunflowers again this year   Sunday, July 10 View Page I'm also trying tall corn for the first time. Sorry about some of my pictures coming out sideways. I will have to remember to do my pictures landscape direction.   Sunday, July 10 View Page I'm also growing a few gaints amaranthus plants witch can also grow over 20 feet tall. I know John butter has some over 10 feet allready so I have some catching up to do.   Sunday, July 10 View Page I'm also growing swiss chard witch is like a spinach witch is one of my favorite veggies   Sunday, July 10 View Page I also love yellow squash. The garden is really off to a good start in june   Sunday, July 10 View Page Here is a megabloom on my grafted Megazac plant   Sunday, July 10 View Page Here is the same flower tomato 5 days later.   Sunday, July 10 View Page And this is the same tomato 2 days later on day 7   Monday, July 11 View Page Im going to have a few choices to make. I have a lot of megas on my plants and I can't decide witch ones to keep ???   Wednesday, July 13 View Page Cauliflower is looking good. I picked 7 heads allready and I have 9 more to go !!! I love cauliflower.   Wednesday, July 13 View Page My First eater tomato. I didn't even know it was their untill it started to turn.   Wednesday, August 10 View Page I have a taste for some scrambled Eggs now !!! Ned gave me these white eggplant seeds that came from Zeke ( Mike Demars) I thought that I would grow in his honor this year. It looks like my eggs are almost ready to pick and fry !!!   Wednesday, August 10 View Page Here is my first tomato this year only 4.04 lbs. I really haven't been in the growing spirit after the last few bad years in a row ? I put in a garden this year but I have only put in a half ass effert in caring for it ? My disire is just not their anymore it seems ?   Wednesday, August 17 View Page here is another one it measured exactly 23" and weighed 4.32 lbs I still have a few in the garden but nothing special.   Tuesday, August 23 View Page Well this is the biggest to date 4.70 lbs.   Friday, August 26 View Page Well this will probably be my biggest tomato this year 5.78 lbs   Saturday, August 27 View Page Well I think my garden season is about over now, back in July we had a company called Tribar a manufacturing company spill or dump 1,000's of gallons of chromium into the sewer system here in wixom. This company was caught dumping another toxic chemicals into the sewers a few years ago and then it passed through the Milford water treatment plant. Well needless to say my garden is only a half mile from this company and the wetlands that I water from go right up to the back of this company. So to make a long story short my family will not eat anything from my garden this year untill I can get the water tested for toxic chemicals so I pretty much abandoned my garden since the end of July. The tomatoes that I am picking to weight were tomatoes that were already on the plants when all this started last month. Since then a ground hog has moved into my garden and is digging tunnels in it. So now my garden is turning into a disaster now.   Saturday, August 27 View Page The ground hog has taken over my garden and he has eaten at least 30 tomatoes allready   Saturday, August 27 View Page I covered many of my squash incase I found the garden to be safe but the ground hog is getting them now too   Saturday, August 27 View Page I did find a nice single still on my plants, probably around 4 lbs. Not bad for a single   Saturday, August 27 View Page I have some sunflowers that are free standing at about 18'-19' feet tall with some decent sized flowers on them   Saturday, August 27 View Page Here is a multi flowering sunflower with a large flower and 16 feet tall. Interesting plant !!!   Saturday, August 27 View Page Here is another view of my tall sunflowers that at near 20 feet   Saturday, August 27 View Page Here is my garden from a distance. As you can see it's a pretty rough area to grow.   Tuesday, September 6 View Page This may bey last year growing a garden. I still need to get my water that I use tested for any toxic chemicals whitch I haven't gotten around to yet. Meanwhile over the 3 day weekend squirrels managed to eat every sunflower that I had. I was planning on saving some of the seeds but now they are all gone in just 3 days   Tuesday, September 6 View Page Hard to believe that a squirrel can eat every seed in one weekend   Tuesday, September 6 View Page I also have a groundhog making a home in my garden   Tuesday, September 6 View Page The groundhog has eaten almost every squash that I had on my vines   Tuesday, September 6 View Page Also strong storms blew over or snapped about 5 sunflowers before the squirrels finished off the rest of them. Needless to say I have been beaten down and I'm not sure if I have the desire to go through this anymore ????   Sunday, October 16 View Page This is my Mike DeMars eggplant that I grew in his honor. Thanks to Ned for getting me his seeds to plant. I just dug it up and brought it into the house for the winter, I hope I can keep it alive to next year.   Sunday, October 16 View Page This is my Mike DeMars eggplant that I grew in his honor. Thanks to Ned for getting me his seeds to plant. I just dug it up and brought it into the house for the winter, I hope I can keep it alive to next year.   Sunday, December 4 View Page Young people who are to lazy to clean the snow off their car before they go somewhere ??   Sunday, December 4 View Page I turned my pointsetia red again this year, this plant is about 3.5 to 4 feet wide and has about 50 flowers on it this year.   Sunday, December 4 View Page Here is a overhead view of my pointsetia plant.   Sunday, December 4 View Page I couldn't help myself, I'm now starting a collection of different verieties of plants.   Sunday, December 4 View Page Here is my complete collection of pointsetia plants now.   Monday, December 19 View Page How i pruned my pointsettia plant.this is a test to see if i can send old pictures from old turned off phone's   Monday, December 19 View Page This is another old picture from my old phone. This is the only way i know to transfer a picture from my old phone to my newer phone so i may be making a few more posts like this that mainly ment for my use.   Monday, December 19 View Page These are michigan grown Washington navel seedless oranges.   Monday, December 19 View Page Another picture of my orange tree