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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay for July 18th
What a chilly week for mid-July! I’m a little bit sad that Tomato Day isn’t this weekend, because the weather would be gorgeous. Instead we are looking at next weekend, and the forecast looks like it will be almost 100 degrees. Ah well, it wouldn’t be Tomato Day if it…
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Continue reading →: Tasting Tomato VarietiesWe had one of almost every tomato ripe in the garden this week, which allowed us to taste all of them and compare. Not all of them were perfectly ripe – some were a little over-ripe and others were a little under-ripe, so our opinions could change with more ideal…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay – July 11thIt’s been a couple weeks since we had a Friday PhotoEssay, which means that I missed taking a weekly whole garden picture last week. I did take one on Monday and again today, but the big change that happened was last week, I think. Tell me what you think: This…
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Continue reading →: Tasting Strange Cucumbers
This was a fun week, because we got to harvest the first of our “not quite normal” cucumbers and give them a taste. First up was the ‘Tondo Liscia Manduria’ cucumber, which is Italian. As you can see it was round with some stripes. The seeds were already starting to…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay – June 27thWe are still officially in drought, but in the garden, I would say we have had plenty of rain for the time being. That said, everything is so lush and it is nice to not have to water all the time to keep things moist. It is starting to look…