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Continue reading →: You Know It Has Been Ridiculously Hot and Dry for Too Long When…
You know it has been ridiculously blazing hot and dry for too long when… When even the warm season hard-to-kill grasses are brown and the only thing growing is bindweed When 2″ isn’t the amount of rain you’ve had recently, but the distance between raindrops on the ground last time…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
I feel like we hardly need a photoessay this week, since I just posted tons of pepper pictures, but I suppose I have a few other interesting things to share. As I was looking at our tomato plants earlier this week, I found that we had a good number of…
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Continue reading →: Perusing the Pepper Patch, Part 2
The peppers, unlike some of our other plants, are doing very well in the heat. I’m glad we’re doing the Pepper Garden this year! It gives us something positive to look at. I tried to take some pictures of each plant in the Pepper Garden to show you where they’re…
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Continue reading →: Video Wednesday
I know this just seems funny, given that it’s 110 degrees outside right now – but we’re getting to the time of the year when we plant fall gardens! I know, I know, I’m really funny. Still…if we do get a break in the heat next month, we should get…
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Continue reading →: On the Hunt
Yesterday afternoon when I was out in the garden, this is what I saw: I know it’s kind of difficult to see, because it’s so bright, but there are several branches on this tomato plant that have been reduced to sticks. Something is eating the leaves right off this plant!…