Ellaberry Gardens

Ellaberry Gardens Ellaberry Gardens provides garden education for all but focuses zone 7a. Located in McIntosh Co. OK.

Toad on beet 🫜🐸
05/16/2026

Toad on beet 🫜🐸

Spring is springing so beautifully around here
05/07/2026

Spring is springing so beautifully around here

Just a friendly reminder from an experienced strawberry grower that this is who you’re expecting to survive a gutter (or...
02/11/2026

Just a friendly reminder from an experienced strawberry grower that this is who you’re expecting to survive a gutter (or any other wee shallow planter) in July and August and September in Oklahoma. Are strawberry plants shallow rooted? Compared to other fruit, yes. But shallow enough for a gutter or any other of the viral ideas you may see online? I’ve never seen it successfully done in NE OK. (Successful meaning healthy plants and fruit in the pantry.)

We had our first freeze Saturday night. Hit me with all your best green tomato recipes!! I have a few planned but curiou...
11/03/2025

We had our first freeze Saturday night. Hit me with all your best green tomato recipes!! I have a few planned but curious about what else y’all might be doing! 💚🍅🫙👩🏻‍🌾

✅ Back porch marmalade. A dream come true. I’ve had citrus trees for years, but never had more than a handful of kumquat...
10/14/2025

✅ Back porch marmalade.

A dream come true. I’ve had citrus trees for years, but never had more than a handful of kumquats or one or three lemons or limes to munch on or enhance a single drink or meal.

Harvested almost 2 lbs of calamondin (or calamansi…this word is helpful for googling recipes!) oranges. Made 6 cups of to die for marmalade. Had to add vanilla just because. Jars are cooling and I’m listening to the seals ping as I type this. Lips are sticky. Counters are sticky. Back is mad. Heart is joyFULL.

As I’ve aged and the world has changed, my garden dreams have also aged and changed. But some dreams have never died. Making marmalade from my own potted back porch citrus being has always been one of them! What a blessing!

Does anyone have experience growing calamondin from seed? Do they grow true? Might need another 3 or 4 lil trees.

We had a really terrible rodent problem in the garden last year. It sucked. But now it’s this year. And they’re gone. As...
07/16/2025

We had a really terrible rodent problem in the garden last year. It sucked. But now it’s this year. And they’re gone. As you all know, we had a monsoon rain season all spring/early summer that drowned nearly all the tomatoes I planted in the ground. And then I started noticing dozens of volunteer tomato babies popping up in all the raised beds the rodents had been living in last year. So I let them go. It’s already a total wild feral tomato jungle in far too many places. And yet, I have a counter full of tomatoes (some recognizable but most not…I have never grown a spoon tomato and yet…) I am absolutely delighted by this grand experiment again and again. And they’re so tasty to boot!

There was a time not very long ago when a w**d in my garden would have made me feel like giving up. I had the luxury of ...
07/01/2025

There was a time not very long ago when a w**d in my garden would have made me feel like giving up. I had the luxury of a city lot sized space and a younger body to keep after such things. Now I’m older and disabled and working a garden that’s much bigger than I ever should have allowed myself to build. And then it rained all spring and I got distracted managing projects on the property that seemed more important. I dug two rows of potatoes today. I have two more to dig. And the entire time I was hanging out in w**ds taller than my knees looking around at the amount of food still growing for us. I brought in another bowl of blueberries, a basket of tomatoes, a basket of peppers, and these potatoes (my fingerlings and purple majesties.) I’ll dig my russets and reds this evening or tomorrow depending on how my body responds the work I did this morning.

I don’t really know what I’m trying to say. It has something to do with letting go of who we think we should be to make room for what we can be. It has something to do with good enough being truly good enough. It has something to do with scarcity being a lie and abundance being the truth. It has something to do with not giving up but instead reevaluating and readjusting and reclaiming all the peace we can find no matter how different things look than we expected them to be.

PS—-also, mark your rows! I know your garden will prolly just never get this overgrown. But just in case it do, mark your ding dang rows so you can find what you planted whenever you’re ready to! 😂🫣

I do so love some soft solar lighting in the garden. ☀️💡
05/05/2025

I do so love some soft solar lighting in the garden. ☀️💡

Spring is springing 👩🏻‍🌾🌱☀️💚
04/26/2025

Spring is springing 👩🏻‍🌾🌱☀️💚

Just like anything else, the gardening world is chock full of ways to spend your money. I’ve tried so many things over ...
03/07/2025

Just like anything else, the gardening world is chock full of ways to spend your money. I’ve tried so many things over the decades I’ve been growing. Some have been worth it. Some not so much.

Electrical conduit trellis recommended by Mel Bartholomew in Square Foot Gardening? Priceless. Mine are at least 15 years old. I’ve replaced the netting three or four times. PVC pipe shoved over a 2’ piece of rebar to make low tunnels for bug and/or frost protection? WORTH IT. I’ve never replaced mine. Will have to someday but I’ve been using the PVC under the row cover pictured for at least 10 years. Dollar Tree wire trash cans? Use them nearly daily. I’ve not had one rust out on me yet (although a few are close) and some are 5 years old at least. I use them for harvesting some but mostly for protecting young seedlings from bugs and chewy rodents.

On the other hand, these burpee seed starting trays? Trash. I have 8-12 of them and none are more than 3 years old and half are brittle and breaking. I have plant trays and nursery pots I’ve been using for decades. Lesson learned on that one. Also (not pictured) those low to the ground rolling and rocking garden stools are trash. My neurosurgeon blames mine for my back disability. So be carefy if you use one!

Any tried and true faves for you that we all need to know about? Anything you’d recommend other gardeners avoid?

Some stores have strawberry plants available already. I bought a flat of everbearing ‘Ft Laramie’ a few days ago. If you...
03/01/2025

Some stores have strawberry plants available already. I bought a flat of everbearing ‘Ft Laramie’ a few days ago. If you’re out and about and you bring home new strawberries, you gotta do the deed. You gotta cut off all the flowering and running little bits. I know it’s so tempting to let them go and I know it’s so tempting to buy plants loaded with baby fruit. But we’re in this for the long haul, growing’ buddies. We gotta do this to let them adjust to being transplanted without also trying to grow babies. Just do it. You’ll be rewarded in the long run. I promise. Sacrifices now for gains later. Do it. 🍓✂️

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