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Keeping Up with Harvest

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It’s always surprising how we go from that “is anything ever going to grow around here?” thing to “good god, more peas?!”  The garden’s starting cranking out food, and we’re already chest-deep in potatoes, peas, strawberries (and more strawberries), broccoli, lettuce, carrots, and onions.  Not, you know, literally chest deep.  That’d be crazy.

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Glassy Potatoes

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If you’re a food garden dork, like myself, you may have run into this weird situation wherein you cook up a bunch of potatoes, and for some reason, some of them don’t… cook.  They get hot, they turn brown, but they stay crunchy and taste either bad or like nothingness.

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so hot…

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can’t blog much… too hot… 100 degrees… global warming and/or mid-summer…

The poor chickens look like fish on dry land with their mouths hanging open panting.

Everything’s hanging like wet rags.

The sweat’s running down my forehead as fast as I can wipe it off.

Hot is what I’m saying.

Wilty Broccoli

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Growing Potatoes in Tires

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I was listening to my friends over at Wiggly Wigglers last night. (Note: We’ve never met, but I’ve gone to bed with Heather, Ricardo, and Phil a couple of times a week for months. Very pleasant people. A bit crowded.)

Anyway, they were talking about growing potatoes in tires (or as they like [...]