Category Archives: fruit

Green Mango

Posted on February 15, 2011 by jkmcintyre

I mostly eschew food that travels more than a few hundred miles to my table. Sometimes this is difficult because I want a grapefruit or I want an avocado, and there is one – right there! But I have been … Continue reading →

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Stink Bug Love

Posted on October 6, 2010 by jkmcintyre

Stink bugs make love on my raspberries. Seriously. I can’t fault them – if I was their size, I would, too – my berries are plump and attractive. Continue reading →

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Spring pick-me-up

Posted on April 4, 2010 by jkmcintyre

Gorgeous, sunny, warm days of outdoor work interspersed with dreary, cold, rainy days of planning. Here are some pics to keep us going on the latter.

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& Beautiful

Posted on August 13, 2009 by jkmcintyre

My two biggest prizes so far this year are my first-ever eggplant (variety: Black), now the size of a golf ball, and melon (variety: Charentais cantaloupe), now softball-sized.

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