The garden is getting to be pretty much done for. There are lots of sweet bell peppers turning red. I need to freeze them but I’m about out of space. I’ve been considering getting a small chest type freezer for a long time but I haven’t done it yet. By next year, I hope to [...]

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With my own tomatoes toast, I was thrilled to get Romas from a friend’s garden. She had more than she could handle and was glad to pass them along. I’d thought about buying Roma tomatoes to dehydrate because sun dried tomatoes are a basic ingredient in many raw vegan recipes. Actually, they are used in [...]

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Last year, I had scads of basil and froze a little. Before the winter was hardly even started, I had put a big dent in what was in the freezer. I kicked myself for not freezing more and vowed to never let that happen again. I spent more money than I care to think about [...]

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It’s said a picture is worth 1,000 words so here’s 6,000+ words worth.

You can’t see the cucumbers but they’re there. I’ve gotten so I sneak over to the neighbor’s house and leave the extras on the counter and run. I took some to work and couldn’t give them away. They are lovely cukes and people [...]

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This is the first week I haven’t gotten out on a Wednesday or Thursday evening to take pictures of my garden. If you continue on, I’ll tell you why.
Last Sunday, I got up admitting defeat. The blight had taken over my tomatoes and my life. I spent so much time on trying to save them [...]

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Even though my tomatoes continue to look very sad, I’m still getting some now and then that are solid and taste good so I’m not going to give up yet. For example, here’s one of my Pink German Queen tomatoes (for size comparison, I’ve put one of the large cherry tomatoes next to it). I [...]

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I’d planned to wait until my my regular Thursday garden update to share what I’m doing. However, if it works to help save even a fraction of what’s out there, I would feel selfish because I hadn’t posted it sooner. It may not work at all but it may, too. It may well be it’s [...]

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I had to go to the big city today for a meeting about “Information Flow Gap Analysis-Patient Data Intake”. I won’t go into the details but it did prove to be quite interesting to see the differences in each area. I think it blew the IT person’s mind. Anyway, that’s not what I’m getting to. [...]

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If you put your pointer on each picture, you can see what it represents.
The biggest cuke is about five inches long already. I can almost see it grow. I bought the cage you can see in the background at the Farmers’ Co-Op for $5. A little steep for a tad of wire but it was [...]

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I’ve tried to find tomato cages for my cucumbers without any success. The variety is Burpless and they like to climb. If left to their own devices, they will sprawl over the ground and the resulting cukes curl up and assume all sorts of weird shapes. When I grew these before, I put the long [...]

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