I live in a 150 year old farmhouse on a little under three acres in semi-rural zone 5. Well, I will. Once we fix it. Hopefully that will be in time for me to plant an enormous garden. And get a giant dog. And fix it even more.
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- harvest Thursday, September 10, 20091 kg total of fruits. The plant was very obliging, and held ripe fruit for a long time without spoiling. This is a sauce tomato, so I wasn’t expecting much from eating raw. True to expectations, it was a little bland and mealy. We’ll see how it cooks up.
- Tasting Friday, September 4, 2009I was dubious about this one, because it is incredibly prone to cracking. Like, if they aren’t cracked, they probably aren’t ripe. I gave the first two to my mom because we were going out of town, and have probably thrown four into the compost. This is the first one I’m eating. ...
- First melon Friday, September 4, 2009First melon ripe. It smelled so strong. It sat in the kitchen for a day, and the smell was so much I thought it might be rotting. It wasn’t. The size was pretty good. A biggish serving for two. We had a little left over, but we were pretty full from dinner too. The taste, well, I can’...
- First tomatoes Friday, September 4, 2009I ended up giving these to my mom since we were going out of town.
- a strawberry! Wednesday, August 12, 2009very small. There were a couple that might have been ripe earlier, but shriveled before I found them. It probably didn’t help that it’s been hot and the irrigation was broken for a few days. Man did this taste like a strawberry! I can’t even describe. The pure essence of strawbe...
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