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Ooof!

Wow…another post about a pest, of sorts.  Though this, like blight, is actually another plant disease.
Here at my house my roommates and I have a small, messy garden.  I say messy because we crammed a lot of plants into a small space and they are doing aggressively well.  Certainly not a terrible problem to have, [...]

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Blighted

Well, it’s happened.  My potatoes have been struck all to hell by late blight.
I’ve been watching them with consternation for a few weeks now…hoping hoping hoping that those little brown spots I was seeing weren’t blight.  Silly me.  I should have chopped them all down right then.
I went out of town last weekend, so almost [...]

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High Fructose Corn Syrup

I’m staying home from work today with a lingering flu-like thing so I was luxuriating in the glory of Golden Girls on Lifetime.  (Picture it:  Sicily 1922…I was home from the vineyard with a Miasma…)  During a  commercial break, I saw one that was unnerving to me.  A man and a woman are sitting on [...]

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