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Cucurbits in the Garden.

Ryan Kraeger

Evie and Daddy planted cucurbits last Thursday (Holy Thursday).

Four or Five different varieties of winter squash, with two varieties of pumpkin and three rather scrawny looking cucumbers and two absolutely emaciated melons. (We have never had a good melon harvest. I am about ready to give up on them.)

It has been unseasonably dry, so we watered them in manually.

And extended the low tunnel over them because we are still getting below 40 at night.

Now grow, doggone you.

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Published by Ryan Kraeger

"I only remember the very first part of the book where he described the man of steel and velvet and I remember the deep chord that phrase struck. I remember the image I had of a hand of living steel wearing a velvet glove, a hand that could crush or caress, strike a killing blow or wipe away tears, lift mountains or cradle an infant. The rest of the book was an afterthought." From an essay about Aubrey Andelin's "Man of Steel and Velvet".

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