December 2011

The Luxury Of No Harvest

by bdunn on December 17, 2011

in Fruit, Nature

Late-fall demands of nature have kept us busy down here on the One Acre Ranch, what with freezes and thaws and exposed water pipes and still probably a couple hundred tender tropical plants complaining of too much cold and then too hot and damp and then cold again. Yet I still find myself actually sitting [...]

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Snatching Supper From The Jaws Of Winter

by bdunn on December 7, 2011

in Garden, Nature

Our first freeze of the year arrived last night, one night earlier than predicted by the weather guys but still anticipated well enough in advance that we harvested some good stuff from the garden before they got zapped. This included a couple dozen Jamaican Hot Chocolate habanero peppers, most showing plenty of green instead of [...]

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