Category Archives: Larry’s Garden

Sylvester Celebrates the Holidays

Remember Sylvester? Our 22 lb friend from the garden? Riley wasn’t that enamored of him, but he has been the perfect house guest these past couple months. Just kind of laying around quietly ….. ripening. When I told him it … Continue reading

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Sylvester

If you spend much time here on my blog, you know that we are empty nesters. It has been nearly 7 years since Lauren, our younger daughter, moved out, so we have become used to a relatively quiet life with … Continue reading

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Tomato Sauce – with real tomatoes!

Don’t you wonder what I do with all of those buckets of tomatoes that grace my kitchen floor? Sure you do and today you can find out. You can even play along if you like. Honestly – it is ridiculously … Continue reading

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Blowing hot & cold

One item that takes up quite a lot of real estate in our veggie garden is hot peppers. We have 18 plants this year, with 6 of those being jalapeƱos. There is, of course, no way we can eat 6 … Continue reading

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A mystery revealed

You saw them before. They seemed to come out of nowhere and hover about.When they appeared to be bringing in reinforcements, we felt a little threatened and wondered what, if anything we could do to defend ourselves.But then we discovered … Continue reading

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