Sorry, been busy with work and the remodel, but… got a nice looking basket of goodies from the yard this morning (eggs, too!):

Whatcha got there is Asian pears, my last Oregon curl-free peach, Van Buren grapes, casper eggplants, yellow zukes, (borghese, striped roman, and sungold) tomatoes, cali wonder pepper, and trombocino squash.
Still, doesn’t mean I’m [...]

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Another in my series of “I don’t have anything to say about my garden” posts.
The weather here in Portland has… mostly… sucked.  First we did the never-ending-winter spring, and now we’re doing the hah-hah-the-fall-rains-have-started summer.  Of my one beelion tomatoes, approximately none are ripe.
So, fine, we make the love!
Or… if you can’t get anyone to [...]

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Normally, I like to procrastinate until my basil’s all gone to seed and gotten real bitter, but this year, I read this country lady’s post about how she made pesto, and I thinks to myself “she doesn’t seem so all-fired smart… I should be able to do that!”
So, here’s my city boy variation:

4 c. fresh [...]

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Dayam!  It is HOT.  My thermometer read 102 a while ago.  Yeesh.
Anyway, I decided that it is possible that I sounded a bit whiney in my last post.  Possibly.
So, I decided to brave the heat and go look for some encouraging scenes.  Submitted for your/my enjoyment:
I wanted to take a picture of the peaches that [...]

 

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One more trip around the sun.
You might imagine that I don’t have any pictures of that.
As for the topic of this blog… I haven’t posted much this summer because it’s been oddly unsatisfying out there this year.  It is August 15th, and I have yet to harvest a ripe tomato– with the exception of some [...]

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