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I posted photos earlier this summer of my fledgling garden: May Garden, photo by smalltowngirl 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, [...] 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. Zucchini the Size of Smalltowngirl's Head, photo by smalltowngirl What else was there to do with this giant zucchini, then, but bake homemade half white/half wheat flour zucchini bread? mmmmmm….. Mmmmm, bread and photo of [...] 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 started. [...] 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. The [...]
Garden, photo by smalltowngirl 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 [...] |
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