Tucker's Garden

Tucker's Garden Tucker has been gardening since he was 2 years old, with help of course, and has enjoyed it. We gard

Eight pounds of blackberries yielded 16 half-pint jars and 6 - four ounce jars of jam. Tucker is thrilled, as he could l...
08/28/2024

Eight pounds of blackberries yielded 16 half-pint jars and 6 - four ounce jars of jam. Tucker is thrilled, as he could live off of pb&j sandwiches. We created three varieties: plain blackberry, blackberry honey, and blackberry apple jam.

The past two months have flown by. Almost every night Tuck and I are in the garden. And it is good for the soul ❤️ Yeste...
07/12/2024

The past two months have flown by. Almost every night Tuck and I are in the garden. And it is good for the soul ❤️ Yesterday we spent most of the day weeding, laying down cardboard, and adding compost. He worked really hard to spread it out around the tomatoes. I wish I had taken pictures of him and Grandma S but I didn't think of it in the moment.

So far we have about 70 tomato plants, 50 pepper plants, 30 winter squash, potatoes, buckets of herbs, and some other odds and ins.

109 W Main St, Luxemburg IA 52056Stop out between 1pm and 5pm today to see Tucker and get your herbs, tomatoes, peppers,...
05/11/2024

109 W Main St, Luxemburg IA 52056

Stop out between 1pm and 5pm today to see Tucker and get your herbs, tomatoes, peppers, winter squash, and of course flowers! Or you can submit an order in messenger and we'll get them ready for you.

Here's our plant list currently:
Catnip
Cilantro
Dill
Echinacea
Feverfew
Gerbera Daisies
Lemon balm
Marigolds
Pepper, Sweet Banana
Pepperoncini, Sweet
Sage
Snapdragon
Spearmint
Summer Savory
Thyme

Peppers, Sweet Bell
-King of the North
-Emerald Giant
-California Wonder
-Candy Apple
-Chocolate Beauty
-Purple Beauty

Tomatoes, Cherry
-Chadwick
-CandyLand Red
-Midnight Snack

Tomatoes, Paste
-Amish Paste
-Roma
-SuperSaucer

Tomatoes, Slicers
-Mortgage Lifter
-Ruby Monster
-Delicious
-Early Darling
-4th of July

Winter Squash
-Baked Potato
-Delicata
-Mashed Potatoes
-Spaghetti
-Waltham Butternut

This weekend was spent up-potting and filling the greenhouse! Tucker was so excited but wasn't a fan that we didn't get ...
04/15/2024

This weekend was spent up-potting and filling the greenhouse! Tucker was so excited but wasn't a fan that we didn't get into the garden.

This week I'll be posting hours for when we'll be open for plant sales next month!

Friday Tucker came to me and asked what was for supper. When I told him that I didn't feel like cooking myself and asked...
03/25/2024

Friday Tucker came to me and asked what was for supper. When I told him that I didn't feel like cooking myself and asked him what he was going to cook, he jumped at the chance and grabbed his cooking binder. He picked out a spaghetti squash bolognese recipe since we had all the ingredients. We had about seven spaghetti squash stored still from last fall in the basement, only needed two. And he grabbed two jars of crushed tomatoes.

Tucker and baby James couldn't get enough! Both of them went back for seconds and thirds.

Spaghetti squash is definitely being grown again this year. Especially since it produces a lot and stores so well. We gave away around ten and kept about ten fruits ourselves.

03/20/2024

Let's talk heirlooms!
Honestly I didn't know much about them until someone here asked if Tuck and I grew them. Since then we've sure to have a mixture of heirloom and new varieties. This year we're looking foreward to saving our own seeds and hoping to decrease our cost.

🍅What are heirloom seeds?
They are varieties of plants that have been cultivated to have the same traits for over 50 years. The seed you grow is the same as the parent plant. It means you can get the same specific traits every year. Or it means you can collect seeds from the best of your produce, grow it the following year, and cultivate your own new variety.

Here are the heirloom varieties we're growing this year. I haven't listed all of them for sale since some are new to us and I'm not sure how well they'll grow. But as long as they grow you can buy them come May!

🌱Veggies and fruits🌱
•Cantaloupe, Hale's Best Jumbo
•Cauliflower, snowball self-blanching
•Tomato, San marzano
•Tomato, Yellow Pear
•Tomato, Chadwick Cherry
•Tomato, Amish paste
•Tomato, Mortgage Lifter
•Tomato, Delicious
•Pumpkin, Connecticut Field
•Pumpkin, Dickinson
•Pumpkin, Jack Be Little
•Pepperoncini Sweet Pepper
•Pepper, Emerald Giant
•Pepper, Chocolate Beauty
•Pepper, Sweet Banana
•Pepper, King of the North
•Pepper, Purple Beauty
•Summer Squash, Fordhock Zucchini
•Watermelon, Blackmail Mountain
•Winter Squash, Delicata
•Winter Squash, Spaghetti

🌿Herbs and flowers 💐
•Bee Balm, Mintleaf
•Echinacea Angustifolia
•Feverfew
•Fireweed
•Horehound
•Hyssop
•Marsh Mellow
•St. John's Wort
•Chrysanthemum, tricolor daisy
•Moonflower, Giant White
•Strawflower, Tom Thumb
•Zinnia, Candy Cane

We're roughly 8 weeks away from our last frost date in Luxemburg. Tucker's been helping start the seed trays and we now ...
03/09/2024

We're roughly 8 weeks away from our last frost date in Luxemburg. Tucker's been helping start the seed trays and we now have two plants already sprouting! We're also experimenting with new plants and flowers so we might be offering more so keep an eye out for more plants. So without further ado here's the plants we're offering this year!

Also, are there any plants you'd like us to offer?

~Veggies~
●Broccoli
○Cauliflower
●Cucumber
☆Eggplant
○Pumpkin
●Pepper, Bell
○Pepper, Banana
●Pepper, Sweet Pepperoncini
○Tomatoes
●Squash, Acorn
○Squash, Baked Potato
●Squash, Delicata
○Squash, Spaghetti
●Squash, Mashed Potatoes
○Zucchini

~Fruits~
🥝Cantaloupe
🍓Strawberries
🍉Watermelon

~Herbs~
🌿Basil
🌿Bee Balm
🌿Catnip
🌿Chamomile
🌿Chives
🌿Dill
🌿Echinacea
🌿Fennel
🌿Marjoram, Sweet
🌿Lavender
🌿Lemon Balm
🌿Oregano
🌿Parsley
🌿Sage
🌿Spearmint
🌿Thyme

~Flowers~
🌸Marigolds
🌸Sunflowers
🌸Zinnias

Hello All!The 2023 garden year was a little bit crazy for us last year and I do apologize. As Tucker was growing his flo...
02/07/2024

Hello All!
The 2023 garden year was a little bit crazy for us last year and I do apologize. As Tucker was growing his flowers and crops I was busy growing his little brother. And while he was very dedicated to watering his geraniums, my tomatoes might have been forgotten 🫢 Luckily we were able to get a fall crop in and enjoy some fresh veggies and fruit along with our newest bundle. Along with learning new tricks and growing new plants.

Please enjoy the photos of Tucker's Garden last year, Tucker cooking with his plants, and his baby brother, as I work on gathering a list of everything we'll be growing and offering this year.

Tucker's told me that it's time to start thinking about flowers and the garden again! He's excited for all the pollinato...
01/23/2023

Tucker's told me that it's time to start thinking about flowers and the garden again! He's excited for all the pollinators this year.

*So on that note, what is everyone needing started this year? We just need a general idea of what and how much.

07/18/2022

Tucker wants to see how everyone's plants are doing! Please share your gardens with us 🥰

Sorry it's been so long since we last posted; it's been busy around here.First official harvest. Tomatoes are doing amaz...
07/18/2022

Sorry it's been so long since we last posted; it's been busy around here.

First official harvest. Tomatoes are doing amazing even though we got them in late. They're almost as tall as Tucker!! Didn't get the cantaloupe in until today. We ran into a soil issue, way too much clay, and took awhile to decide how we'd like to continue.

Tucker says he loves the green bell peppers and wants to eat them tomorrow for supper. The extra peppers will be washed and frozen. We're going to make cayanne powder and red pepper flakes with all the cayanne peppers this week.

I have a strong dislike for mosquitoes and am always looking for ways to keep them away from me especially while I garde...
05/13/2022

I have a strong dislike for mosquitoes and am always looking for ways to keep them away from me especially while I garden. This year I added Lemongrass specifically for that reason!

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