This summer was not kind to any living thing in Texas. Despite my best efforts, I lost just about every plant in my raised bed. Even the tomatoes. We would dutifully check the color change each day (Graham insisting they were balls, not tomatoes) until I declared, “In the morning, it’s going to be ready [...]
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Enthusiasm is waning. Why? Maybe because it has been 100 degrees for weeks. Maybe because some bugs are using the garden as an all-you-can-eat buffet, while others are using us as an all-you-can-eat buffet. Maybe Violet is tired of trying to humor me. (“Yes Mom, I see the baby cucumber. Now can we go swing?”) [...]
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Things are going along pretty well for someone who can only garden in 30 second chunks. We haven’t had to buy salad greens for weeks. Violet has eaten all 3 strawberries that have ripened on our one tiny plant. The green beans are climbing and the purple beans are growing. The squash and cucumber are [...]
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