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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Blighted
Posted in 'Round here, The Farm, bad stuff on August 9, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The world got away from me
Posted in 'Round here, Cooking, Local Sources, Weather on December 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Forgive my very long absence! (Well, at least from this blog. Readers of my personal blog will know this is rather par for the course.) Two weeks ago, I got a promotion, and I have been working like a crazy person. I worked 57 hours one week and 52 the next! I’ve been exhausted to [...]
Rainy
Posted in 'Round here, Cannin', Gardening, The Farm on September 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
We had a very rainy weekend (plus Thursday and Friday). From the very non-scientific measure on my back porch, which is actually a rubbermaid container that holds any veggie scraps we take to the farm, we got about 5+ inches this weekend. It never rained terribly hard, but it was constant.
Something about fall rain makes [...]
Haying
Posted in 'Round here, Victories! on September 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I live quite close to Plymouth (as in Plymouth Rock and the Mayflower), which is a lovely if not kitschy kind of place. Ever since I moved here last year I have had this crush (if you can call it such) on a little piece of land that was somewhat of a mystery to [...]
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