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Continue reading →: Can You Take the Heat?
Ugh. I can tell that today is a Monday. Of course, my computer tells me that it is currently 104 degrees outside, which is probably m0stly accurate. Our poor garden is looking pretty crispy, even though we watered this morning. You can’t believe how much I’m looking forward to a…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
Now that we’re a week after all the Tomato Day hoopla, our tomatoes have quit being shy and are really starting to ripen! I was out in the garden yesterday and noticed that a marauding squirrel (I assume) had munched on a couple of ripening tomatoes and knocked a couple…
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Continue reading →: Sweet Seedless Tomatoes
We’ve had a couple of tomatoes off our ‘Sweet Seedless’ plant, and I have to say that I find the lack of seeds a trifle disconcerting and unnecessary. Some people apparently really dislike seeds in their tomatoes though, and for those folks, this tomato is actually quite tasty.
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Continue reading →: Harvest Report
Now that Tomato Day is over, the tomatoes are starting to ripen! We had plenty of cucumbers, tomatoes, Asian peppers, and a few other things to harvest this morning. The pale tomato in the corner is one of the Orange Blossom tomatoes, and the green ones in the center are…
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Continue reading →: First Raspberries
Our poor, sickly raspberry plants are suffering through the heat and are beginning to produce a few berries. Even in good health the weather is still just a little bit too hot for really good berries and with the root rot issues it is definitely too hot. The berries are…