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Grafted Tomatoes

That's a $10 tomato start, folks.

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The veritable Lady Gaga, or potentially Charlie Sheen, of this garden season seems to be the grafted tomato.  You’d think it was something cooked up in a Monsanto lab in a test tube with all the hype about them.  I must admit that I hadn’t given the whole thing a lot of thought [...]

Garden all summer, pick stuff for a week.

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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 [...]

When Life Gives You Green Tomatoes

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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 [...]

HBTM, Part II: The Hot Hours

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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 [...]