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31 Oct 2009Dragon Purple Carrots 1 Carrot 'Dragon Purple' Harvesting, Backyard garden , Early Purple Eggplant Harvesting, and Sweet Pepper 'Yo...Sunny 18°C / 64°F
My Green Zebra tomato totally shadowed the Dragon Purple Carrots, and I only got to harvest them now. They look gorgeous! Beauty is only skin deep though. Once I peeled them you cannot tell that they were purple. Still, I loved its color! Will definitely grow more.
In other news I harvested an Ea...
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23 Oct 2009Wintermelon soup 3 3 Winter melon Harvesting and Backyard gardenSunny 18°C / 64°F
I was patiently waiting for my wintermelon to turn dark green, since that is the only way I knew to tell if they are ripe or not. Last week it started raining, and the exterior was rotting from the moisture, so I had no choice but to harvest it. Luckily it’s actually ripe.
I put it on my ki...
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23 Oct 2009Scrambled eggs with Yard Long Beans 4 3 Yard Long Bean Harvesting and Backyard gardenSunny 18°C / 64°F
Finally harvested some yard long beans! I left one of them for too long, and it’s all soft and yellow. I pinched it open and extracted the seeds for next year. For the green ones, I chopped them up and made an egg stir-fry, just like how my grandma made it when I was a kid. Yum!
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10 Oct 2009Roasted garlic 5 Garlic , Backyard garden , Parsley Harvesting, and Tomato 'Peacevine Cherry'14°C / 57°F
I have been using my garlic for cooking, but this weekend I decided to try roasting. I chopped of the first third, poured in some olive oil, and wrapped it it foil. Then I put it in the oven for 50 minutes. It has a pretty mild taste, so I had to add salt when I spread it on bread.
We didn’...
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26 Sep 2009They sure are long 4 Yard Long Bean Fruiting and Backyard gardenSunny 30°C / 86°F
The yard long beans really defied my expectation: yes, I thought they’ll be long. But I didn’t realize that they are stiff too, and sticks out to the air when they first start forming. And they are purple!
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26 Sep 2009Oh, a pepper! 2 1 Sweet Pepper 'Yolo Wonder' Fruiting and Backyard gardenSunny 30°C / 86°F
My peppers are growing so slowly that I have not been paying much attention to them. Finally, one of them decided to make fruits! Yay!
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26 Sep 2009Getting big 1 Winter melon Ripening and Backyard gardenSunny 30°C / 86°F
Skin is still furry, so it’s not ready yet. I wonder how big it’ll get!
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16 Sep 2009Yay, a flower! 4 1 Yard Long Bean Flowering and Backyard gardenSunny 18°C / 64°F
The yard long bean has been climbing like crazy, but no flower in sight. Until today. Hopefully it’ll actually have enough time to make beans.
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16 Sep 2009Hairy fruits 5 3 Winter melon Fruiting and Backyard gardenSunny 18°C / 64°F
My wintermelon started fruiting last week, but I didn’t have a chance to take a photo until now.
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16 Sep 2009Doing well 3 1 Alpine Strawberry 'Mignonette' and Backyard gardenSunny 18°C / 64°F
Lots and lots of leaves!
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