When it's 100 degrees in New York, it's 72 in Los Angeles. When its 30 degrees in New York, in Los Angeles it's still 72...

...However, there are 6 million interesting people in New York, and 72 in Los Angeles." ~Neil Simon

yesterday i harvested another 1/4 row of potatoes and these ones seem to be free of blight. i've managed to cut around on the blighted ones and par-boiled a few cups of cubed potatoes for freezing.

going to make and lightly cook some latkes to freeze, but still have a row and a half left to harvest, which can wait awhile...so i think it's pretty apparent that potatoes are going to be our winter food for this year.

pierogies will also be made and frozen w/in the next week.

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just picked 5 smartypants' of blueberries w/mom at mom's neighbors'!

probably going to make some blueberry/gooseberry/blackberry muffins later as we have a few cups of gooseberries from mom and there were random blackberry bushes w/in the blueberries that attacked me a lot.

doing that just cut into my normal sitting around time, so i guess i've gotta go get THAT taken care of...

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth? ~George Bernard Shaw

we took in all of the garlic last week and it really is a beautiful thing! we got about 12 full, beautiful bulbs and a handful(5-6) of partial bulbs that had a few cloves that had to go...

lemon cucumbers are doing amazingly well. we've noticed 1 blighted tomato and have hundreds of potential healthy ones on the way. *crosses fingers*

took in about 1/4 of a row of potatoes and about half were blighted...

looked up whether the potato blight would hurt a person, if eaten, and found nothing saying that it would. apparently it just makes them kind of woodier but i cut around the actual blighted spots (it seems to mostly be nearest the surface on the potatoes...the tomatoes are the real fatalities. either way, i made a batch of samosas and still have 10-12 potatoes left.

4 mystery squash plants.

already done are the purple mustard greens that replanted itself all over the place. and snap peas and collards.

first time i've ever grown brussels sprouts and they grow like such aliens! but they are doing well, i think.

we bought some hot pepper starts but despite the fact that they all seem to be producing peppers, they remain short, so can't really-physically deal w/more than 1 or 2 peppers.

peppermint seems to have taken over and despite the fact that horseradish is "unkill-able", ours seems to be the most apathetic, sad looking horseradish-possibly ever.

catnip is still alive. Fat Tony and Deimos have both found it and tried to thwart it but were quickly ejected from the garden.

the dahlias seem to be doing ok, but have no blossoms yet. my tiger lilies are all done for the year. my lily of the valley has just gone into full effect. a mysterious red lily popped up that i did not plant-but am pretty excited to have, even though it is also done for the year...