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Tag Archives: garden
Still Going Strong
September 27, 2011 Picked a dozen or so okra, a creamy yellow sweet pepper, a mess of green beans and two cucumbers today near the end of September. The Lorelei continues to produce, continues to pump out the produce and … Continue reading
Posted in Daily Sentence, Garden: A Love Story
Tagged beans, cucumbers, garden, okra, peppers, sentence, Writing
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Farewell Dragon’s Tongue!
I started cleaning up the garden for winter, pulling spent Dragon’s Tongue bush beans, weeds, and clearing dead leaves and other debris. End-of-season plants are not so pretty plus they can harbor disease and pests. Besides, I like the look … Continue reading
Posted in Garden: A Love Story
Tagged beans, bush beans, Dragon's Tongue, garden, prolific, wax beans
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Our Own Work / Our Own Sustenance
We’ve been putting some of our harvest by over the last few weeks, preserving it for use this winter and to give as Christmas gifts. My wife used a slew of the many, many tomatoes that ripened all at once and made fifteen pints of tomato chutney, … Continue reading
Posted in Garden: A Love Story
Tagged canning, chutney, cucumbers, fig jam, garden, gardening, pickles, self-sufficiency, water bath
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Late Summer Beans/ Late Summer Man
What the heck! Nineteen days ’till the autumnal equinox, one of two dates on the calendar with equal doses of night and day. From the first one on March 21, the days continued getting longer, warmer, the air full of … Continue reading
Posted in Garden: A Love Story, Time
Tagged autumnal equinox, garden, gardening, late summer, time
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Smith Recognized
Imagine my pleasant surprise to learn Smith was to be given an award. As I’ve mentioned, gardeners, though seemingly nice and mild-mannered on the outside, are really cutthroat, fierce competitors on the inside. We want the biggest and most tomatoes, … Continue reading
Buckets o’ Bounty Revisited
I picked my third bucket of tomatoes the other night. I really can’t tell you just how pleased I am about it. My first two years gardening at Smith, the tomatoes were only o.k., one year even anemic, six plants … Continue reading
Posted in Garden: A Love Story
Tagged garden, gardening, tomato abundance, tomato sauce, tomatoes
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Buckets o’ Bounty*
The entire gardening venture is satisfying and fun for the most part. Yes, there are disappointments and frustrations such as critters that munch plants. I believe I shared a half dozen ears of corn over the last couple of weeks … Continue reading
Posted in Garden: A Love Story
Tagged bounty, garden, peppers, picking, pickled peppers, sauce, tomatoes
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Smith, Jones, and the Lorelei Welcome Me Home
I was looking forward to a little vacation, ten days in Indianapolis to celebrate my mother’s 80th birthday and four or five days with our three children, their spouses and, of course, our grandson Rider. The only thing that bothered … Continue reading
Posted in Garden: A Love Story
Tagged flowers, garden, heat, hot, tending, tending life
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Garden Time Stands Still
I’m a pretty bad judge of time. I think it’s been a week since so-and-so happened, but I find out it’s been a month. That can be bad if I think the bill arrived a few days ago, but really, it’s been a few … Continue reading
Actual Broccoli Harvest
I’m a broccoli farmer, a real big-time producer of the stuff. Up until a week or so ago for the last month and a half, I picked whatever broccoli was ready, usually enough for a meal for the two of … Continue reading