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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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 [...]
Tags: garden
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 [...]
Sometimes, I think I do vermicomposting (worms eating my garbage) just because it’s entertaining, though it makes excellent compost and tea for the garden. I don’t think that vermicomposting can process nearly the amount of organic waste that a decently cranking compost pile can. It also implies a certain amount of fiddling that just piling [...]
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I mean that in a good way. Our no. 1 son is sick, and so we’ve been up at all hours lately. So, contrary to my usual sleeping-in-til-9:AM routine, I was able to make breakfast this morning and get outside before 8. I know, most people do that all the time. I [...]
