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July 31, 2006
Another color in the garden!
So my friend Diane really likes salsa, right? And pizza sauce, and anything marinara. But do you think she likes raw tomatoes? NO! At least she's promised to invite me along when her mom teaches her (and her sisters) how to can. And you better believe that there's gonna be tomatoes to can. From marinara to pizza sauce to salsa to tomato jelly... or maybe not. We'll see.
I got home from work today and Dan said to me, "There's a new color in the garden today!" And it's not red. It's orange. Apparently, I'm learning, tomatoes go from green to yellow to orange and THEN to red. Well, at least I hope red is the next color. I haven't bought any tomotoes in more than two weeks because I thought we were that close.
Tomatoes above - the first blush of color on the cherry tomatoes, the first husky gold, and the cherry gold plant from Danielle, below peppers and the monster cucumber that has more than doubled since saturday morning.
basil - green and red (the combo makes for a yumm yumm pesto!)
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July 29, 2006
Carrie, Carrie, quite contrary... How does your garden grow?
Check out my tomatoes! This is the first year I've planted a garden, and I think I really really overdid it on the tomato end of things! I have 22 plants between roma, cherry, and 3 heirloom plants from Danielle. She gave me a Husky Gold, a Green Zebra, and a Golden Cherry plant. We also have a plant from one of Dan's coworkers that supposedly produces tomatoes the size of small chick peas (garbanzo beans/ poichiche/ humms/ etc) in clusters that resemble grapes. Dan thinks they'll be awesome for drying and tossing on salads... yummy!
Once my peppers catch up, we're going to have salsa coming out our ears... too bad I didn't plant any cilantro! PLEASE, if you're in the area, feel free to come over and take some of these off my hands in a couple of weeks when they start ripening!
The first tomatoes: Romas & Sweet 100s
The first peppers, a pinch of mint
the first cucumber, and the whole shebang
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July 06, 2006
Up, up, and away. And back again.
We took advantage of the long holiday weekend and joined all the other crazies on the road to make our annual trek to the north country, the land of black flies and no cell coverage.
Carrie & Henry, climbing. Dan at the section corner. Henry-aka Fluffy-20 weeks.
By the way, Henry is the puppy we transported from Saginaw to the Bridge a couple months back for Matt and Vic. He's more than tripled in size since we saw him last, and is afraid of nothing.
Some random flowers along the wagon road.
And... a 54' WalMart truck whose driver wanted a speedy solo miner's tour. He had no problem whatsoever getting his rig turned around in the parking lot, but some vacationers have trouble with their 28' travel trailers...
A quick stop at Canyon Falls south of Baraga on the way back home,
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