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with potential frosts in the forecast today will be pepper picking day and then i'll probably get some or all of them cleaned up, chunked and frozen for chili. i've not looked at the plants in a few weeks so there might be none, a little or a lot to deal with.

"The first one is free!" :) :) :)

division doesn't have to be gentle or careful, but at first you might do that to get an idea of what you can get away with in future "operations". pretty much you just have to know how large of chunks you need to slice to get the chunks to take and then how to treat those chunks so they will...

cheerful and rotund. :)

it started raining last night and every time i've woken up it has been raining. we've really needed a good soaker so this is very welcome, plus, i can enjoy a day off from gardening and other outside "issues"... :) :) :) as a bonus no leaks in the roof noticed as of yet.

it really is raining this evening. we really need it so this is good with me.

some of them can be harder than others. :) the spikes are rather dangerous on some of them. can you describe what you did with them? did you water them once in a while? did they get enough light? did you repot them once in a while? is your water salty? did you ever fertilize? did they...

the past few days we've not even hit the dewpoint overnight. that is very very unusual here. this current forecast has us down for slight chances of rain this early evening so i should be able to pick beans as much as my legs will let me before dark, but we'll see. then we have chances of...

@Oxford i just have to say i'm always amused at your handle as you are in Switzerland. i'm always doing doubletakes. :)

if you are speaking you are exhaling humidity ... if you are writing you are also likely still breathing and thus still exhaling humidity. i'm sorry, my pedant is off the leash...

i got the trench dug and some weeding done, taking a few minute break before going back out. breeze is picking up and that will be a big help but i'm not sure how much of this heat i'll be able to tolerate. yesterday i lasted until almost 1pm. today would be nice to finish this garden so i...

today will be an earlier repeat of yesterday, working on a garden to get it put up for winter but also to head off yet more grass invading it. somehow it is getting so much grass in it. it is a very fast growing and sets seeds quickly type of grass. i did 1/3 of the garden yesterday, getting...

likely this will be frost on the ground for us. Wednesday Night Clear, with a low around 36.

no cosmic squirt gun or newspaper up there... and speaking of newspapers as a kid we never got swatted with something so mundane as that but instead there was the wooden spoons - eventually we got too big for those to be very effective and i do remember quite clearly Mom chasing my brother...

looks delicious to me too. that's about how i like to cook turnips. :)

when i was doing more seed winnowing i had meshes of different sizes to let the seeds fall through and then if there was a need to do another round of winnowing i would do the wind drop method on a clean sheet, usually there was a region on the sheet where most of the seeds would land that i...

RIP dear Bucket Lady...

picked some dry beans (and some not so dry but they got picked anyways) yesterday and am sorely tempted to shell them because of hints of what i'm seeing and also because i need to get some flats combined to give me more room for more flats. it was warm enough to chase me inside after a few...

if every valley applied selection pressures for long enough you can certainly have a different looking variety and that they are all going by the same name would complicate things. it would be quite a project to collect them and to grow them out and document the differences. :)

looks good to me in either form. :)