Jun. 18th, 2018

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The last of the radishes have been pulled and eaten; I never did grow fond of the radishes themselves, but the radish greens made a nice salad addition, so I may plant it again next year. The spinach, which I thought would nice for salads, never really prospered, so I probably won’t bother again.

The herbs, though, are flourishing! Unfortunately the only one I’m using on a regular basis is the basil (which I also put in salads; it’s been a very hot summer, so there have been a lot of salads) although I do have recipes that use rosemary if it ever gets cool enough to use the oven again.

Or I could buy a rotisserie chicken and make rosemary cranberry chicken salad. Mmmm. Now that’s a good summer food.

And as for the thyme and sage… well, I daresay I’ll figure out something to do with them.

The real excitement these days, however, lies with the tomatoes. The Rapunzel variety attempted to make a break for it, levering itself and its square of potting soil out of the ground (clearly I had not planted it well), but I caught it in time and a day of rain put its wilting leaves to rights. I have begun to call it Rapunzel as a name, which sounds rather odd when I say things like “I’ve tied Rapunzel to a stake till I can get a cage for her.”

She is supposed to grow cherry tomatoes in long skeins. I am very much looking forward to seeing this.

I’ve got two other cherry tomato plants, which also need Disney princess names so they won’t feel left out. I am leaning toward Anna and Elsa, as they’re a pair, but we’ll see if they develop suitable personalities.

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