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Love to Hate: Cosmos

cosmos_polaroid_sm.jpg Let's all agree right now to stop pretending to hate cosmos (Cosmos bipinnatus) and (Cosmos sulphureus). Let's agree to stop telling ourselves we are too good for it. Or that it's too easy. Let's agree to admit right here, right now

City Razes Garden

I walked outside the other day, into the street garden with scissors in hand to clip some flowers intended for the host of a party I was attending. As I bent over to snip a few Black-eyed Susan stems I discovered that the flowers were completely gone.

Is There Anything Else?

tomatoes_shadow.jpg And earlier this evening we enjoyed Homemade Oven-roasted Heirloom Tomato Soup. How To: It's so simple you'll be asking yourself why you didn't make it before. Cook longer in the oven or heat it up afterwards in a pot and you've got sauce good

From Out of a Crack… Behold, a Tomato

tomatoes_crack_wool_sm.jpg Whomever says tomatoes can not and should not be grown in pots has not witnessed some of the surprising discoveries I have made over the years. While out biking yesterday afternoon, I happened upon this fully mature, volunteer cherry tomato growing up from

Easily Amused

tomato_purplecalabash.jpg The bottoms of all of the 'Purple Calabash' tomatoes are so bumpy and mishapen that they are morphing into cartoonish grumpy old man faces as they ripen and mature. Today a friend remarked that we are so programmed to accept perfectly smooth-shaped produce

Poised to Be the Best Tomato Harvest Yet

whitecat_tomatoes.jpg Aside from several handfuls of 'Whippersnapper' tomatoes that started ripening over a month ago there have been tomatoes here and there but not in the numbers we're starting to see on the roof and over at the community garden plot. Despite a

It’s a Monster. A Monster!

crosspollination_small.jpg The result of some interesting cross-pollination found at one of the farm stands at the Farmers Market this afternoon. I've seen some strange mixes in the past but let's just say I don't see anyone using this miracle of nature as the

Mexican Sour Gherkin

mexicansourgherkin.jpg Adorably teeny tiny Mexican Sour Gherkins (Melothria scabra) are starting to pop up all over the vines I've got growing at my community garden plot. The fruit in the picture is about half and inch or so and should be approximately 1-2" when

Now with Moving Pictures

I know. I don't post anything for ages and then I give you this. I received a simple little pocket-sized point-and-shoot digital camera for my birthday and have been excitedly testing out the video feature. The following are two short videos from day one with

Monster Vegetables

zucchini_hands.jpg I made a quick trip to my community garden plot yesterday where several large zucchinis and cucumbers were quickly expanding into over-sized monster vegetables. I had been gone for 6 days and Davin was unable to get into the garden with a poorly
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