These plants not only survived the continuing and worst drought in Texas history (as far as we know, which isn’t very far) – they thrived. They’ll all do better with a little rain, but as this year’s unintended experiment showed, they do pretty well without much. The white job at top left is one of [...]
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We enjoyed about a 10-day respite from 100+ degree heat here, and at night it was great, dropping from about 90 to the low 60s. The bad part is that the cooler air also was incredibly dry, and sucked away what little moisture our soil had managed to retain. Suddenly everything became browner and drier, [...]
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I believe the temperature has been over 100 in the shade here, usually for several hours at a time, every day since August began, and for at least two or three days in July before that. It reached 106 in the shade for an extended period last week, according to my garage thermometer, and 104 [...]
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This year more than ever, the first week of July means an end to most of the summer garden. It’s topped 100 out in the sun almost every day for the past two weeks, and while a few of the tomato plants still are partially green and growing, they can’t produce fruit and are being [...]
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The start of the fig harvest, the tail end of the tomato harvest and grocery stores full of plentiful cheap chicken can make weekend menu decisions easy. Just make sure to cook that chicken thoroughly, especially if, like us, you aren’t lucky enough to live within reasonable driving distance of a free-range poultry farmer. And [...]
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A few bags of “fresh” Sicilian tomato sauce still sit waiting in the freezer, packed from last year’s garden largess, and I’d already frozen a batch of ragu sauce, perhaps blasphemed due to the four or five smoked pork ribs thrown in the pot just to see what. Yet the maters kept marching through the [...]
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The tomato harvest had petered out somewhat, amid the constant nagging hot winds of our June. Big, green fruit hung on the vines, but didn’t appear likely to color up anytime soon. It was a good time to take a weekend off, and on Friday, we did. Needless to say, upon our return two days [...]
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 Partly Cloudy 86°/66° | Partly Cloudy 86°/68° |
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