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Lemon Lift

This is a Meyers Improved Lemon – it’s about 4 years old now. This summer it grew a bunch of lemons – (six?) – they are delicious and wonderfully fragrant. And there are more blossoms coming, so maybe we can keep this going all winter. Since the plant is inside now I will need toContinue reading “Lemon Lift”

November

Originally posted on Suburban Growing:
Fall garlic emerging November is here. The October garlic is in – most of it. We wish we had planted more. The pole beans are still producing. We wish we had planted more, way back in July, before we ran away from the August heat to a family vacation. The…

November

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Clucking in suburbia

As a child, I dreamed of chickens. When, after drawing up plans in my diary, I pitched the idea of a coop in our backyard at my mom’s bedside one Saturday morning, she only pleaded “Go back to bed!” Saturday morning was not the best time to choose, but the idea was pretty muchContinue reading “Clucking in suburbia”