Life In The Slow Lane
Posted in Gardening on Nov 29th, 2009
Frost has finally nipped the peppers and eggplants in our vegetable garden. I harvested the last peppers this week just before Thanksgiving, while the eggplants stopped producing several weeks ago. We are having some Giant Marconi and Yummy peppers on our salads today for lunch. The ample rains this year have been kind to the many [...]
Posted in Gardening on Nov 19th, 2009
I’ve been a little under the weather this week (I’ll spare you the gory details) but the veggie garden goes on. We’ve still got fresh turnips, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, lettuce, radicchio, and tatsoi to harvest as we need them. Amazingly, we haven’t had enough frost here to kill the pepper plants. I can’t recall the [...]
Posted in Gardening on Nov 5th, 2009
Now is good time for me to review the performance of some of the new vegetable plants I tried this year, while it’s all still fresh in my mind. Some of the new-for-2009 standouts include Gourmet and Snapper bell peppers and Pingtung Long eggplants. The Snapper peppers were huge, and good at both the green [...]
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