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plants

Nine Out of Ten Banana Analysts Agree

April 12, 2010

Musa ‘Ice Cream’ and Musa ‘Brazilian’ are the top two best-tasting banana plants on the banana analysts’ top five best-tasting banana plants list. Speaking of ‘naners, I am so finsta hop the recent ravenolocavoracious mania and lassoo it to the ever-so-avante carbon-zero steamy hot wet planetism to make the first ever carbon-neutral neighborhhood greenhouse grocer [...]

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intractable fungus

December 15, 2009

Two summers ago I cleared the understory in the back yard. I stacked all the long skinny maple trunks at the edge of the yard and forgot about them (after the next door neighbor bristled at my interpretation of the property line). This summer, after months of frustrated desire for a back yard aesthetic paradigm [...]

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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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Crop Circles, Hieroglyphs, Mary

September 13, 2009

Some seductively dark watermelons caught my eye walking through the market  Saturday and I stepped to the stand to peep. I picked up the biggest and turned it over in my hands. The skin had a pattern etched into it. Whoa, look at this baby! Courtney was duly impressed.  It looks like crop circles, I [...]

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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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Kaffir (Thai/Asian/Wild/Makrut) Lime – Citrus Hystrix

August 15, 2009

A word to the prospective Kaffir Lime shopper: don’t buy yours from Logee’s Tropical Greenhouses (my fault — I didn’t read that it came in a 4-inch pot, so ended up paying close to $20 for a 2-inch tall tree that won’t fruit before my children set me out on an ice floe) or from [...]

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