Hey, look, a cucumber! Remember how I was saying that it turned out that my cucumbers were watermelons? Turns out that I was totally wrong, and at least one of the plants is, in fact, a cucumber. Apparently cucumber flowers and watermelon flowers look a lot alike–I figured five-petaled yellow flowers were going to be [...]
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The garden, it seems, is pretty much exploding with tomatoes. Livia tells me that I have planted too many, but I think that she’ll end up being wrong. Between putting up sauce, canning tomatoes, and possibly making ketchup–which I’ve always wanted to do but have never actually done–I think that I’m going to still need [...] See that? That, my friends, is food from my garden. Lovingly cradled in my shirt, because I am unorganized and didn’t have a basket or anything, and it was going starting to rain, so I didn’t want to go back inside to find one. Last night I made supper, and everything green in it (swiss [...] 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 [...] I’m sick, so bullet points, some of which will be expanded upon at a later date. We saw Pixar’s Up on Monday, and it’s prompted me to get going on my long-threatened series of posts on why I don’t like Disney. So far, it’s looking like it’s going to be about seven posts, probably spread [...] Well, Internet, today I finally put my garden in. Apologies in advance for the weird photos–there was way too much light, and I compensated poorly. A week or two back, I’d laid the groundwork for the garden, still believing that many, if not most, of my seedlings would be dead by the time that I [...] Well, I’d planned to put my plants in the ground today, but instead we got a frost advisory. Given that I’m incredibly proud of the fact that these plants have been growing for a month and very few of them have died, it seemed advisable to wait until next weekend, when things will hopefully be [...] So far, the plant mortality rate around here is zero, which is pretty damn impressive. Our yard is also covered with the flowers you see in the picture above. I think that they’re forget-me-nots, though I’d always thought that forget-me-nots were blue. There are definitely blue flowers here, but some of them are purple, and [...] Oh, internet. The most amazing thing has happened! A few days ago, my garden looked like this: You may be wondering why some of my little biodegradable plant starter things (technical term, obviously) are in a box, and…actually, I’m sort of wondering that too. I’m sure that I had a really excellent reason when I [...] |
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