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Garden all summer, pick stuff for a week.

August 28th, 2008 · 4 Comments

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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When Life Gives You Green Tomatoes

August 22nd, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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HBTM, Part II: The Hot Hours

August 15th, 2008 · 3 Comments

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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