I finally got around to de-podding the bucket full of long-dried pinto bean pods I’ve had sitting around for a month.
This is the yield from about 5 or 6 bean bushes. Not very much, and my fingertips are now sore from cracking open all those dried pods. Still, they will make a yummy dinner for [...]

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In the midst of doing a late summer harvest, I found two monsters in my front yard.
If anyone knows what the fuck this big, fat worm thing is, please tell me. I found it hiding in a tomato bush.
Then, in the zucchini patch, I discovered this beast:
I thought the zucchinis I’ve picked over the past [...]

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After noticing several humongous zucchini hiding out in my squash patch – which only a few days ago were not that big at all – I decided to go all out for a mid-August harvest. Here’s what I reaped today in my small backyard garden:
Yet to come is a wheelbarrow full of butternut squash (still [...]

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