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Continue reading →: Tomato Update
Our tomatoes are generally looking great this year! After 2 years of tomato heartache and heartbreak (heat one year, herbicide injury and heat the next), we finally have some great looking tomatoes again. We’re starting to see a touch of Early Blight here and there, and there’s also a little…
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Continue reading →: Tuesday Garlic & Shallot HarvestYup, you get another round of garlic harvests today! You can see that the color of these two beds has clearly changed from blue-green to brown-grey-green. We are getting close on most of the garlic and shallots! Only a couple more weeks, I think. We harvested 2 varieties of garlic…
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Continue reading →: Friday PhotoEssay
Another Friday, another photoessay. Even though we are experiencing more normal summer temperatures, it hasn’t seemed so bad. Maybe because it’s in the 80s and 90s rather than 100s? As long as we don’t have those 100 degree temperatures stretching out as far as the eye can see on the…
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Continue reading →: Cooking with Garlic & Shallot Scapes
A couple weeks ago when I had some garlic and shallot scapes from the garden, I used them in a very simple and very tasty shrimp dish that my family likes, Coconut Shrimp Stew. I chopped up 4 or 5 of the shallot scapes, just like I would have the…
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Continue reading →: Getting Close to Eggplant!
Hey, look what I found in the garden yesterday morning? That’s right, it’s a baby eggplant! A baby ‘Millionaire’ eggplant, to be precise. Some of the other eggplants are growing well and starting to flower also. Here’s another plant that is starting to flower. In the background you can see…