Category: Digging in the Dirt

With Apologies to William Styron & Guy Clark

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Would you sacrifice your summer squash to allow heirloom tomatoes to live long and ripen? I encountered this ‘Sophie’s Choice’ dilemma this weekend. Tomatoes won. For obvious reasons.

It’s simply much easier to find a nice zucchini or yellow squash than an heirloom tomato at the HEB.

I am leaving this post here mostly as a note to myself for next year when I want to plant squash. While I love butternut, spaghetti, and acorn, I feel kinda ‘meh’ about summer squash. I mean I like it, just not as much as it thinks I like it.

I know these are fighting words in the Lone Star state, but I don’t love this song, but can get behind it’s ode to one of life’s simple plaeasures.

In the legendary words of Guy Clark;

“Wha’d life be without homegrown tomatoes
Only two things money can’t buy
That’s true love and homegrown tomatoes”

Lettuce Talk Mother’s Day Gifts

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Whether your mother has a green thumb or black thumb… these lovely markers will help identifying the living, or the dead.

Cilantro click on a link below to buy a handful of these up-cycled vintage silver plated herb markers. They’re the real dill; stamped by hand, not machine. Potluck Tableware is always mint to be cheeky, handsome & useful.

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A Box of Rain, Please & Thank You

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Not only is my garden happy for the rain this weekend, but the damp earth and newly blooming honeysuckle made for the best start to my day ever. What is it about the smell of a downpour before, during, and after that makes us all just want to breathe it all in?

There are few smells as lovely as the scent of that moment just before it rains. Though my cat’s tummy and tomato leaves are way high on my list. While petrichor may not sound lovely, this lush and earthy olfactory pleasure makes life worth living, and evidently is as pleasing to animals as it is to humans.

Read this interesting article about the science behind this shared experience…

https://qz.com/1344089/the-science-of-bottling-the-scent-of-rain/