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I’ve spotted a few strawberries today. I’m hoping I can get to them before my eager Golden retriever does. She just loves the strawberry plant and hunts them out like truffles.

My other tomato varieties have come and gone but the cherry tomato plant is still hanging in there. It’s still producing a few tomatoes here and there. I’m going to keep it going until the first frost.

This was my beautiful, full basil plant just a few weeks ago. Wasn’t it beautiful? We got a lot of good use out of it this summer. Since we’ve had a few rain storms it’s not doing so well. I think I’m going to be experimenting with freezing and drying basil leaves this weekend. I…

I have unfortunately caught a cold and am nursing it with hot sake and miso soup. If that doesn’t work I am going to try Smitten Kitchen’s 44 Clove Garlic soup if that can’t fix what ails me nothing will.

I am going to be busy today cleaning up the garden the best I can and planting shallots and garlic for next year. I am growing Yellow Dutch shallots and Tempest Brown garlic with German Porcelain garlic. I am planting later this year than last year since it’s important not to plant them too early…

Last year I grew paperwhite bulbs indoors during the dreary winter months. I found contradictory information on what to do with the used forced paperwhite bulbs. A few sources suggested planting them in the ground but others said that a forced bulb uses so much energy that it can’t regenerate next year. Not wanting to…

I always thought these Chrysanthemums look like fireworks and I think we have a lot to celebrate since last night.