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Peter Piper’s Pickins

Fay finally managed to rain on us a bit last night, a whole 1/4″ according to the trusty and official FBY rain gauge out back. Oh well, at least it’s not ninety-million degrees to go along with this 2000% humidity.

We’re really having a bumper pepper crop this year. Along with the billyuns of poblanos and red bells, we have a burgeoning Marconi bullnose:

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Some Red Rockets:

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And the picturesque Thai Hot:

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With more and more (and more) to come:

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The pots of onions and carrots are sprouting away:

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The red rice beans are as prolific as one could hope for:

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And have seriously lovely blooms:

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Best of all…the fig tree is fruiting!

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Which only a little bit makes up for the cursed whiteflies utterly destroying my ground cherry bush. It’s not that they outright laugh at applications of Sevin, it’s that they’re so bloody prolific, new eggs hatching every few days. So after scouring the ‘net, we’re going to try Nylar, a prime ingredient in some flea preventatives. Destruction of fleas = a happy bonus!