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In My Kitchen Garden: Tomatoes

I might have let them ripen a touch longer, but who wouldn’t be eager to harvest the first two tomatoes of the season? The thing you can’t tell, because there’s nothing in the photo for scale, is how small they are…the larger one is about 2.5″ in diameter.
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In My Kitchen Garden: Snow Peas

We’re enjoying a plentiful harvest of snow peas – but then again, if you plant snow peas you’re almost bound to enjoy a good crop. They have got to be the easiest vegetable I’ve ever grown; they don’t require much space (a trellis is handy), seem to have very few problems with disease or pests, [...]
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Lettuce on the Table

Our fall lettuce is ready for cuttings now, and at this point I’m mostly just thinning out the growth in the planting. We use a mild-tasting leaf lettuce mix; I tried a mesclun blend last spring but it was too pungent for my palette. The heads are growing so rapidly though I’m afraid we may [...]
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