Entries from June 2007

Death of a Mussel

June 30th, 2007 · 8 Comments · Uncategorized

Today’s brainteaser is to guess which of the bowls on the left contains the live mussels that we purchased for dinner last night and which bowl contains the dead mussels. If you are thinking this must be a trick question because there couldn’t possibly be that many dead mussels in the four bags we took [...]

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Summer’s First Squash

June 29th, 2007 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized

Last night I was determined to eat from the garden and one of our squash plants obliged with a magnificent specimen. You hear so many jokes about gardeners being inundated with zucchini that I wasn’t quite sure what to expect when I planted my squashes last year. But this has turned out to be one [...]

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Focus on Tomatoes

June 28th, 2007 · 4 Comments · Uncategorized

That unsightly mess on the kitchen table would be me re-potting several dozen small tomato plants that have been waiting on our front porch for some attention. I planted a vast number of tomatoes (mainly Brandywine, Purple Cherokee and a yellow cherry variety) in hopes of selling them to benefit the seed fund for the [...]

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