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Sunday, January 27, 2013
little winter garden starting small....
The little winter garden is starting small. I have some leftover onions and carrots from the Fall, and new plantings of red cabbage, chard, lettuce, and collard greens. I have high hopes for some good salads.
Friday, January 4, 2013
sweet potatoes
I finally got around to digging the sweet potatoes. This year was the first year I planted sweet potatoes; I started with a little plant from a neighbor. I tried this plant off in a corner of the yard and tended it with benign neglect. Only grew one sweet potato from the plant, and it's delicious.
sweet potato - Ipomoea batatas - just dug |
sweet potato - cooked and mashed |
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
Satsuma mandarins
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
sanditas are still producing
Last season I planted a sandita vine (Melothria scabra) as an experiment to see how this little fruit tastes. The word "sandita" means "little watermelon" in Spanish, and the plant has been grown in Mexico since before the arrival of the Spaniards. The vine seems very hardy; the taste of the fruit is much like a cucumber.
Melothria scabra |
Monday, December 3, 2012
worm in the compost
I took this video with a simple compound light microscope at 400x magnification. The first few seconds of the video are probably the most fascinating, but I found the rest interesting too. It's much better to watch in "full screen mode." Hit the little rectangle in the lower right of the video. Hit "esc" to get back to regular mode. If anyone can reliably identify the species of nematode, let me know.
Sunday, November 18, 2012
pineapple guavas make great quickbread!
Tuesday, November 13, 2012
squash from the back yard
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