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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Ooof!
Posted in Gardening, bad stuff on August 11, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Blighted
Posted in 'Round here, The Farm, bad stuff on August 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
High Fructose Corn Syrup
Posted in bad stuff on September 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
