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At this point, basically just drumming my fingers, waiting until it's time to start the hotboxes for the corn. More accurately, waiting for it to get warm enough reliably I can set the tomatoes and have ROOM to start the hotboxes for the corn (and be able to clear space in the cold frame to move...

I've sometimes wondered if, when the "other cat" started showing up and pushing on the windows, if, had we NOT found Juniper, we would have opened the door and let it in*. Probably not (in truth, we consider it a VERY ugly cat,) but I imagine we might have left it food and let it get used to us...

No need for me to buy. Thanks to my "hunts" I have things WAY nastier than that I could toss in the gardens of people I don't like.

While we're at it, does anyone else have the same problem when typing I have here. Every time I hit the backspace to correct some spelling, it automatically also gets rid of the "return" I used before to separate the paragraph from the previous one, and smooshes them together. For someone who...

Only doing two this year (was going to do three, but it looks like none of the White Currants made it through). One is Phantome du Laos, that large white fleshed tomato that supposed to work as a ghost detector. The other is a green one called Open Minded. I suppose that one is sort of...

Well, wouldn't that just basically be boneless escargot?

No, as far as I can tell it is a different species of allium, Allium macrostemon. It's also called Japanese Garlic.

Box arrived today. Empty, as expected.

Updates 4/6 Just fertilized the two big pots on the side patio and added the lablab beans (two types per pot, none with specific names). Did plant such Chinese garlic as still looked alive (two of them ) but honestly can't be sure if either will take (none of it really seemed to grow any...

Never having either cooked, I wouldn't know. The few times my mom has cooked with plums, it's usually mixed in with other fruits in a tart, so it would be hard to tell them separately from most of the other fruits. I do remember a lot of Asian plums stay pretty firm when cooked, but that's...

There are a lot of subtypes but they have a few thinks in common. They are green to yellowish green, as opposed to the other Gage plums (oddly while Greengage is treated as one word, all of the others are two i.e. Red Gage, Yellow Gage, etc.) They take their name from Lord Gage, who apparently...

General Updates Peas, Tinga and Rice Bean seedlings are now in their permanent spots as are the Horse Gram seeds (I did dig around in the pot I planted with them last year, but either the web was wrong about the perennial rhizome, it takes more than one year to develop, or it rotted with the...

This strikes a familiar chord with me . Quite often, when I share recipes, the list of what goes in has to be accompanied by a list of where you can GET the stuff. And then, there is my chai recipe. Me: "Okay, now you need some red juniper berries." Them: "Where can I get those?" Me: "You...