bountiful august harvest redux

As I walked through my kitchen it popped into my brain that I should post a photo of my counter top as it looks today. What this doesn’t show you are the additional tomatoes sitting off to the side in a basket, the many pounds of vegetables stuffed into my refrigerator, not to mention [...read more]

thai chili pepper

Who can object to a plant that is both so prolific and so beautiful? In the spring, my wife had expressed a desire to grow one of these as a container plant. I ran across this particular plant at Lowes. Given how hot this summer has been, the poor thing has wilted on numerous [...read more]

first peppers planted

The dear wife is behind on her seed starting this year so I’m trying to hedge my bets a little bit and get an early jump on this warm weather by supplementing our efforts with commercially grown seedlings. There’s not yet much variety at any of the local garden centers but I took a [...read more]


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leaf miner in swiss chard damselfly chicks view from the east garden to the patio grasshopper damage just like Jiffypop, the poppies are poppin' now 4 zone manifold protected tomatoes serviceberry - they taste like a blueberry but are a tad mealier; the scarlet color indicates peak ripeness
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