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Early Girls and more!
We celebrated the first day of summer this week and this morning I picked our first ripe Early Girl tomatoes along with some basil. Can we say Caprese Salad? The rhubarb is about to take over! It is growing in a 4-foot square raised box. Too bad those enormous leaves aren’t edible! The magnolia I […]
Seasonal Joys
Oakland broke a long-standing record on the 28th when the skies opened and we received over an inch of rain. I’ve been closely watching our espaliered magnolia in the back yard which has 6 buds on it, the most at one time! Once open, the blooms seldom linger more than a day or two so […]