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I am still getting my plants ready for winter and have a bunch of pots to take inside this year. I usually avoid having indoor plants because my house is very small and I have a number of cats who are on the clumsy side. This year, though, I decided I [...]
I began harvesting the wild lettuce seeds. I’ve picked a few, but now they are coming on in hoardes, which is great. Because they wear parachutes, I am having to carefully cut off the ends of the flowering tops and put them top down in an open box so the seeds can fall off. There [...]
Today I’m harvesting some of the Bull Nose peppers I grew this season to make balsamic red pepper jelly from The Ball Complete Book of Home Preserving. I very much recommend this pepper variety to those who like sweet red peppers and heirlooms. They make a thick fruit very much like a pimento but in [...]