Birmingham Blues

Tomatoes and Peppers

I promise this isn’t going to turn into a gardening blog — well, not exclusively — but I do want to link to this interesting piece on attracting European honey bees, which includes a recipe that’s supposed to bring the little suckers running…er, flying to pollinate all those flowers that make yummy fruits and vegetables.
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…when they pry it out of my cold, dead hands. The WTF story for the day (well, aside from this week’s Doctor Who cliffhanger *spoiler alert*) is this one from Loretta Nall. There is a move underway in Alabama to outlaw a particular type of salvia, salvia divinorum, which is apparently a hallucinogen.
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This one’s for Kyle:

Dear Husband has already sampled it, and he pronounced it very good. It doesn’t look purple, and it doesn’t look like liver. It looks yummy! Kyle, I hope you beat back the onslaught of green worms and have a bumper crop.

I spent an hour or two in the garden this morning, taking care of the tomatoes. The tomato patch was a mess, branches hanging on the ground and lots of extraneous foliage. Now it looks like something out of Dr. Frankenstein’s laboratory, with the plants rising out of long-overgrown baskets and clinging to [...]

Or something like that. I don’t have the energy to look up the lyrics. And most of y’all are probably too young to remember that song anyway.
It’s hot here. Duh. June in Alabama. The tomatoes are coming along. I missed the first ripe ones, but nephew Zach, who was [...]

Lots going on in the garden right now. The tomato plants are busy making babies. I saw my first bell pepper sprout on Mother’s Day, which seemed rather fitting. Now we have two.

Tiny Tomatoes on the Early Girl

The Celebrity Has a Baby Too

Bell Pepper Seedlings
More pictures after the jump.