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I really hate asking for help, although you probably couldn’t tell it from this blog. Or maybe you could tell it, because I’m forever running into trouble with my plants and only then, after I have a bunch o’commenters tell me what’s up, do I do the right thing. So why, then, do I have [...]

I’m a big fan of restaurant dining. Plate it up, kitchen, and dot that sauce around the rim. I’ve been known to plate a meal or two at my own house, for sure, but I have to admit…I’ve never served myself up a flower salad. That always seemed a little too, I don’t know, high-brow? [...]

Apparently Steven’s comment was right—there are many more beans to come. I harvested another handful this week, and they are destined for some good eatin’, although I have not yet cooked them. I’m a little overloaded with vegetables, still, and have hit that point in the season where I’m a tired of dealing with them. [...]

As I sat on my porch yesterday afternoon, blogging and enjoying the quite excellent Indian summer weather we’re appreciating here in Iowa, I looked up at the hanging basket. Trey was totally right in his comments about my hanging basket choices. Mums are a very, very stupid choice for hanging baskets. Not only do you [...]

Down at the southern tip of Florida, where they have to grow tomatoes in the spring and the fall because the summer is so freaking hot, my cousin Katherine started a blog this year: GFCF Mommy. GFCF stands for Gluten-Free, Casein-Free, a dietary lifestyle her family has adopted to help meet the nutritional needs of [...]

Although I went to a science and tech magnet high school, there was a time when I thought I would never be accepted into my high school class. I thought I had failed the placement exam just based on how much I struggled through the spatial relations portion of the test. Spatial relations, as far [...]

I started to reach a point of vegetable saturation recently, and it was having the net effect of making me uninterested in cooking or processing any of the food at all. I knew it had to be done, but for whatever reason, was digging in my heels. The refrigerator was full to the brim with [...]

Apparently no one briefed my Four O’Clocks about their name. Or issued them watches. Once I figured out, with the help of AnnieBetty and other astute commenters, what kind of flower I had actually grown, I began a full-court press on Tuesday afternoon to figure out when they would actually open up. I kept running [...]

My neighbors already think I’m crazy, out there at all hours of the day, lifting leaves and pushing aside stems to get at just the right shot of a blossom, a bug, a baby fruit. So, I thought, what will they think if I’m out there working on Christina’s dare in the garden? Will they [...]

I shocked any number of my citified friends with my rodent-bitten tomato-eating. Protests came in from as far away as North Carolina pleading with me to return to something resembling urban life before it was too late. (I must repeat, for those not in the know: Iowa City is not a city. I love it, [...]