May. 31st, 2004

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So I just finished potting up all my tomato, pepper, and eggplant plants. And, as usual, I have about 45 plants, though I doubt I'll want to plant more than 20 or so myself.

Anyone want some nightshades? If so, can you leave a note here, telling which ones you're intersted in? ([livejournal.com profile] poetry_lady, [livejournal.com profile] tshar and [livejournal.com profile] plantae, to whom I've spoken, have priority. But there should be a few left over. Usually the tomatoes go first...)

What I have:

Tomatoes, three varieties:
"Early Cherries" -- just what they sound like. Early, productive, and, well, early.
"Principe Borghese" -- possibly my all around favorite tomato -- technically a small paste tomato, often used for drying. Productive, cute, particularly tastey.
"Legend" The late blight resistant eighth wonder of the world. Small to medium sized slicing tomato, decent flavor, thick skin, and if we get another cool rainy fall... it won't start rotting on the vine with late blight. Or at least it's mostly resistant.

Peppers, two varieties:
"Anaheim" -- pretty typical, suspect you're familiar with it.
"California" Wonder Seven -- a bell pepper that does well in our climate

Eggplant -- "Dusky" an itallian style eggplant that usually manages to set fruit even in our indifferent summers.
(However, I should note that while eggplants aren't usually productive without a lot of TLC, they are extraordinarily beautiful plants, with really marvellous flowers, and can be enjoyed on that basis alone.)

Nope, none of these are particularly unusual or exotic. I'm pretty busy at the moment, so I'm mostly keeping things to the tried and true (and couldn't get my hands on my favorite hungarian peppers on short notice). OTOH, they are all plants which will usually do fairly well even in indifferent summers and with less than incredibly attentive care.
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Still some weirdness through my hips. I should stretch more.

I feel like I'm starting to hit a reasonable pace. Finished the re-write of my article this morning, repotted the rest of my nightshades, planted a bunch of basil and lettuce and okra... stopped by the REI sale (cheap wicking sleeveless shirts!) ran errands with Craig, then came home and made beans with squash, tomatillos and peppers, and caponata. And started bread. And hung out with Craig and Corvi. I could really use a home and garden day every week.

(And then got the news about Juliana, and ended up skipping out of reading chemistry or working on "learning to fall" to bury myself in escapist fiction. Oh well.)

My biggest fear about returning to school is that I don't have the energy for it. Okay, scratch that -- it's that I don't have the energy to do it and keep up with my current martial arts load, and not only do I not want to cut back, I'm afraid if I do pieces of my body will start falling off and then I really won't have the energy for it. Then again, all the pieces of my body are currently attached. Which is saying something.

Or I worry that I've lost my ability to productively deal with stress, and will become a crazed insomniac basket-case. At least I've done that before.

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