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Lots and Lots of Tomatoes!

I posted photos earlier this summer of my fledgling garden:
The garden now bears little resemblance to that tiny garden I started with in May. The tomato plants and berry bushes are as tall as I am, which isn’t saying much, of course.
The trellice you see in the photo is for the zuccini, squash and cucmber, all [...]

Zucchini the Size of My Head

You think I’m kidding, but I’m not. The first zucchini from the garden this summer was pretty nearly as big as my head.
What else was there to do with this giant zucchini, then, but bake homemade half white/half wheat flour zucchini [...]

Missing Brooklyn

I’ve been missing Brooklyn this weekend in a serious way.
In looking at Brooklyn blogs tonight, I found this one, talking about Brooklyn Botanic Garden, where I worked. There’s a photo and a short blurb about a 70 year old man who loves BBG and loves Facebook. It then talks about BBG’s Facebook Group, which I [...]

Things are growing in my garden!

I sat on the porch at dusk, drinking a Sam Adams. Not one to stay still for long, I wandered into the garden to put the trellis I bought yesterday in with my berry bushes.
Much to my delight, there are already green peppers the size of my thumbs and tomatoes the size of golf balls. [...]

Gardens

Now that I’m back in Missouri, where there’s no shortage of land to plant on, I’ve been working with my parents to plant a garden.
Growing up, we grew strawberries, tomatos, cherry tomatos, cucumbers, and a few green peppers. This year we planted all but the strawberries, as well as crooken neck and zuchinni squash, blueberries, [...]

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