Um, I really don’t know what I’m doing with veggies. I threw a bunch of things in here this year, rather late, and they’re going now, but I have no clue when to harvest them, or which ones I should be tying up, or um, what they are. It’s a little funny how completely incompetent […]
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Good morning! I’m a little slower getting out to the writing shed today, since I had a WorldCon panel leading into the board meeting last night; some board meetings are done by 8:30, but this one went ’til 10. We’re struggling with finding ways the library can support the parents and the schools during e-learning
If you wear a long, linen dress, climb into the pool, immerse yourself, climb back out again, and then go sit in front of the fan in your shed, you can be quite comfortable for another 90 minutes of writing, even if it IS 90F. Life is better when you stop worrying about looking goofy.
Okay, I always underestimate how long posting photos takes! But I had a little bit of a backlog, and now it’s cleared. Here’s the view from my writing shed right now — I’m going to post a cooking video after this (coconut sambol, yum), and then to work!
Duranta putting out more blooms. I love how eventually it looks like it’s raining purple flowers all over; I’ve pruned mine to a tree form, so the effect is sort of like an umbrella.
Pineapple tomatillos, grown from seed! They look a lot like ground cherries at this stage, but are not the same. Kevin makes the Rick Bayless tomatillo sauce from scratch pretty regularly (he does most of the Mexican and Chinese cooking in this house) — I’m hoping we get enough of a harvest that he can
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I planted a lot of heirloom tomatoes this year, all grown from seed, and I didn’t have that many tomato cages (or that much available sun). I read about a method where you use stakes and tomato twine, cutting off the extra vines and growing the tomatoes sort of in a straight line. I admit,
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Begonia coming in for her close-up.
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Liatris and cardinal flower (natives) coming into full bloom. I’d like to have these repeating in two other spots in this border — I’m wondering if they’re big enough for me to divide this fall; I think I only planted them a year ago, but not sure how old they are. I may try it.
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If I’d had fresh basil, I would have chiffonaded it and added that too, but olive oil, balsamic, salt and pepper was still utterly delicious with fresh cherry tomatoes and burrata. These cherry tomatoes are from the store; I got a late start planting mine this year. But soon, we should be flooded with cherry
