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30 Sep 2009delicious grapes Harvesting and grapes gardenwow. these are tasty. picked a grocery bag full and took them back to Seattle. then we ate them all up.17°C / 62°F
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16 Sep 2009bother 4our landlord has decided to have some painting done. the railing that a substantial portion of my plants are hanging on is fairly ugly, but I don’t think painting it will solve that problem.so I’ve got to have my plants out of the way by tomorrow. most of them will be pretty easy, b...Cloudy 21°C / 69°F
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26 Aug 2009public transportation 3 2I’ve been spreading chicken manure the last couple weeks at work. today the spreader broke, so we had to shovel it out manually. I smell strongly of chicken shit, and I don’t blame anybody for avoiding the seat next to me on the bus.Overcast 23°C / 74°F
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22 Aug 2009food 2 maypop Blooming and manzano pepperCloudy 22°C / 72°F
last weekend, I picked some figs off a tree across the street from my grandmother’s house. her friends used to live there, but they sold the place to a land developer and the fire department burned the house down for practice. but the fig tree survived. the figs I took on a bike ride, th...
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02 Aug 2009soup 3 2 New Zealand spinach Harvesting, red malabar spinach Harvesting, ruby moon lablab Harvesting, alexandria str...cut some New Zealand spinach, Malabar spinach, and lablab pods and broke out a jar of miso that’s been aging in the closet for a while. various other sundry ingredients went into the soup that is currently cooking slowly. picked a large-ish alpine strawberry while I was on the porch. the...Sunny 32°C / 90°F
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02 Aug 2009Seattle coffee? 4 kahawa coffee Sprouting, Mexican breadfruit Moved, garage lotus Moved, white caerulea? Moved, and Scimitoo ...my coffee-growing empire is off and running with one seedling. soon, all those local food fruitcakes will be able to drink coffee again. hooray. I also moved some things.Sunny 28°C / 83°F
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01 Aug 2009happy garden 4 ruby moon lablab Blooming, Mexican sour gherkin Flowering, Mexican breadfruit , date plum Sprouting, purple...my little apartment garden has been growing like crazy due to this week’s heat wave. I noticed that the mouse melons have flowers and tiny fruits. a Swiss cheese plant got its first holey leaf. the lablabs are flowering prolifically. a date plum seed that I didn’t know was even th...Sunny 18°C / 65°F
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29 Jul 2009stigmata 3 3 maypop Flowering and Morgan strawberries Harvestingmaypop has a flower bud. I’m happily surprised. I’m told passionflowers are named for the wounds of Jesus Christ. that seems a little silly, but they’re amazing flowers and delicious fruit. here’s hoping that flower makes a fruit.also, it is fucking hot round here. sq...Sunny 41°C / 105°F
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28 Jul 2009split 1 garage lotus Sprouting and living room floor gardenabout four or five seeds have cracked open and sprouted. twenty more to go.22°C / 72°F
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25 Jul 2009up 1 lotus Sproutingsprouted overnight. I’m currently filing through the seed coat of the third of twenty-three lotus seeds I pulled out of an ancient flower arrangement Kanna found at work. I like lotus.Sunny 22°C / 72°F
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