First, important garden news. Two nights ago, Nick and I ate the stuff in the picture above for supper. Thumb-sized baby carrots! A tomato that looks somewhat pallid in the picture but was, in fact, both perfectly ripe and delicious. Today I took another tomato off the same plant (a Better Bush, for those of [...]
First, the mystery berries have been identified! The brilliant crowd over at MetaFilter IDed them as mock strawberries. Nick and I tested that theory tonight by tasting them, and it seems that once again, the internets were right–pretty like wild berries, but no flavor whatsoever. I have to admit that I’m rather disappointed that they’re [...]
The internet, it seems, is in love with magic berries. As it turns out, so am I.
My idea of magic berries doesn’t quite mesh with the internet’s berries of magical sweetness.
We’ve been basically ignoring the lawn in the back of our house–first because it’s mostly weeds, and then because no one but us sees [...]