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gardening

eremurus like octopus

December 15, 2009

I am beginning to think that the octopus is my familiar, though I am not sure we’re supposed to enjoy our familiars as cuisine as much as I love mine. Regardless, I like its style. I like the cut of its jib. I like its inky defense mechanism and its stink-eyed seafloor stare. I like [...]

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Countdown to March

November 12, 2009

I’ve a long-term plan for the front walkway that will in two to three years time be so awesome you may be compelled to smack you mama. Here is the recipe: smackyoumama frontwalk cocktail 300 tulipa rococo 200 tulipa black parrot 125 lilum alba 50 allium sphærocephalon 6 single white pæonia Blend the rococo and [...]

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2009 Potato Harvest In Its Entirety Right Here

November 9, 2009

moral: don’t plant your potatoes in the shade.

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Besoaked

August 28, 2009

It’s been raining nearly non-stop for the last two days, and the temperature won’t get over the mid-sixties. I’ve got dozens of tomatoes I’m dying to pick but they just sit there on the vine: plump, green, and tempting. The very picture of refusal. I spent a morning working in the garden at Good Fatherers [...]

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Little Shop of Horrors: Garden Full to Burstin’ (not Ellen)

August 15, 2009

It’s mid-August and things are really heating up around the garden. I’ll pick my first ripe tomato tomorrow, I’ve got more cucumbers than I can deal with, and the pumpkins and gourd vines are threatening to swallow the house. Despite all the shade I stupidly failed to foresee in the back yard, I did manage [...]

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