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Health & Fitness

Captain's Log: Week 13 - Almost Ready for Slash and Burn

Organic gardening.

While I enjoy the concept of a lush garden, actually navigating it and harvesting - or seeing what there is to harvest, for that matter - is decidedly frustrating.  Especially with these bloody mosquitos dive bombing you at every movement.  However, I finally picked one set of onions and though small, they smell good, are organic and are drying for use in the immediate future.  There are more tomatoes growing after a verrrrry slow start, and I look forward to when the sizable fruit are actually red.  Peppers abound and I knocked off a tomatillo (which to me says it was ripe anyway) and if I can figure out a way to get in there, there may already be a salsa-worthy haul to be had. 

I still enjoy seeing growing things and tending to the garden, but I'm just about ready to neaten up the little plot and prep it for next year's experiment: lasagna gardening.

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