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21.07.2023 / 22:43
Mad stash: everything into the pot, freezer, cellar
“If you can force us to ripen,” the few lingering tomatoes seem to say, “we dare you to do so.” (Apparently they don’t know I have my ripening tricks.) “If not,” they add, “then give up already and make us into green tomato-apple mincemeat, or pickle us, won’t you?”“If instead of letting repeat frosts have their way,” the parsley utters, “you know you’ll be happier with me tucked safely in the freezer in those things you call your parsley logs.”“If you can figure out what to do with me,” a particularly raggedy row of kale (apparently visited by a cabbage-worm convention) says in a shrill and challenging tone, and I think, Hey, don’t get fresh with me!Yes I can, dear kale, because once you’re b