Still g(r)o(w)ing!

I think the garden has hit its second wind. I love it! My tomato plants are all bushy and covered with new blooms (and they’ve grown like, three feet in a week). The peppers are flowering (this time closer to the bottom of the stems) and the cucumbers are going crazy (I [...]

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Thankful Friday

I thank the Lord this week:

for the hot weather again.  It was too early for my garden to get frostbitten at night!
for the cucumber plants producing baby cucumbers like crazy again.  I’m looking forward to a “last hurrah” of cucumbers before the end of the balcony growing season.
for a productive week of research.  I have [...]

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Tomato pie

I got this recipe a couple of summers ago from someone in my husband’s research group. It’s relatively easy, and it’s delicious!
Tomato Pie
4-8 ripe red tomatoes (depending on their sizes and how stuffed you want your pie)
1/3 c. chopped green onions
4-8 fresh basil leaves (depending on how much you like basil), torn into pieces
1 [...]

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Thankful Thursday

Thank you, Lord…
for the beautiful weather (that’s not too cold yet!)
for the taste of fresh produce
for some feedback about my research
for trickles of information about my fellowship (just enough so i don’t go crazy!)
for my friendships
for endurance for each day this week
God is good.

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Red pepper number one

Hurray for a lovely bright red pepper! I cut it Tuesday evening…

I’m interested to see that the peppers that get sun on only one face are getting red only on that face. I didn’t realize that it was *direct* sunlight that turns them red…
The weather is starting to get really chilly at night. [...]

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It’s a jungle out there!

When friends come over to our place and see the balcony garden, their comments are always along the lines of, “Wow, you’ve got a jungle on your balcony!” I take that as a compliment It must mean that our plants are thriving. Here’s a picture that I took of the garden [...]

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Quick pepper update

There are officially two peppers starting to turn red! I’m so excited. I’d almost given up, and was starting to think that maybe we’d been sold a green pepper plant under the guise of it really being a red pepper plant (Do just green pepper plants exist?). But no, two peppers [...]

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