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A very warm afternoon 84°f (29°C). The air quality dropped back into the Moderate level but it would have been difficult to know that improvement with the continuing haze. A 68° afternoon is normal and 89° is the record high for the date (20C and 32C). Interesting that we could be so far above...

The changes in the angle of the sun, where it rises and falls on the horizon, the length of the daylight ... the shortness of the Winter days ... it is all so dramatic at this latitude. Six in the morning and almost dead dark. Seven in the evening and dark. Good Grief –– it is still September...

You might want to just grab the younger stems.

We finished a lunch with the Snap Peas. The seed for them was sown at the end of July. Often, they won't have time for development of pods but they were successful this year! So nice to have :). When they or the Snow Peas cannot accomplish producing a crop of pods, there is the opportunity to...

The timing of cilantro is "tricky" because it is nice to have with ripe tomatoes. Sowing cilantro seed in a late planting of sweet corn allows it to grow a little before bolting. The cilantro roots can be cleaned thoroughly and stored in the fridge or freezer for later use. Compromise by using...

@ducks4you asked for my tomato soup recipe on another thread. Really, it is the simplest thing; I can prepare a couple of bowls in less than 45 minutes, start to finish. And, there is no precision to it. Ya know, I was a kid who was quite happy with a cup of hot V8 juice with a sprinkle of...

When you pass through your tomato patch just about daily, you can even anticipate that "breaker" stage. The dark green begins to lighten. However, I was usually growing about 7 varieties and maybe only 1 was new. This was in the larger gardens and, sometimes, even with as many as 60+ plants...

The winds were not as strong as predicted. 😯 That has to be just about a first. Really. Usually, I can just about count on the Weather Service recording, actually recording !, wind gusts 5-10 mph higher than they predicted 12 hours before. It's okay 🤤 👍. I'd rather be a little anxious about...

⌛ ⌛ ⌛ Broom Hilda is supposed to be 1500 years old!

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@heirloomgal have you tried Thessaloniki tomatoes? I considered it my long keeper while I had larger gardens. It was just fine as a fresh slicer during the growing season, here is a picture of Thessaloniki in an early August post LINK. There is also a TEG post in early December 2010 where I am...

@Shades-of-Oregon , it looks as though the smoke we can expect to have will just be from the Columbia Basin filling with smoke as the winds pick up. We must have been getting something of a benefit here from smoke going higher in the atmosphere ooorrr, blowing north into British Columbia. I...

That's it. It was very important for me to know and follow through with the process. I wanted  more production on less ground. I didn't just want to throw chemicals on the dirt and scratch some seed in. Yes, I know that commercial agriculture is more than that but I wasn't planning on working...