Cucumbers have been doing really well in my garden. They’re pickling cucumbers, and I finally had enough to can, so yesterday I made bread and butter pickles using this recipe from Simply Recipes. I only had the cucs on ice for 3 hours instead of 4, and I added slightly more chili pepper flakes than the recipe […]
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The zucchini is starting. This is the only one I can see so far, but there are a ton of flowers, so it should be a good crop. The flowers look like a terrifying-but-also-kind-of-beautiful species from another galaxy, and while I’ve heard they’re edible, they do not taste delicious raw. Nasturtiums, on the other hand, are quite
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I hate gardening. So, I pick Eris Day to take it up again. Figures. In 2009, I got as far as step 1: remove all the weeds, rocks and crap from the space, but then I didn’t get any further with it. Gardening always seems like a lot of work, and I didn’t really have the patience
