We have this big mostly ugly cactus in our front yard that becomes wonderful to look at this time of year. It flowers. Big white waxy wonderful blooms. And one of the coolest things is that the flowers only open at night. During the heat of the day they close…but at [...]
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This is a sad day. Our corn crop has failed. It seems that we had a pollenization problem. We had lots of ears, some quite large, but with very few mature kernels. Pictured here is one of the fuller ears. Sad day indeed.
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Well, back on May 23 I posted a picture of my infant corn…just an inch tall.
This week our corn is nearly five feet tall.
Though not quite “as high as an elephant’s eye” it still “looks like it’s climbing clear up to the sky” and it is taller than either than my children!
Only about a month [...]
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A little over a week ago, we planted corn in the garden. A little water and sunshine and look, it’s growing! If all goes well, come August we should be in sweet corn bliss!
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It will only be a few weeks now, and we will begin to indulge ourselves in the natural,fragrant, intense sweetness that is a fresh, tree-ripened, home-grown peach. We have three peach trees and each one should ripen a few weeks after the other – that way we will be able to relish in this flavor [...]
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