Keeping it rural on 5 acres in New Jersey. Sunday, June 5, 2011. The warm, wet weather has brought my flowers out in spades. My spring veggies are going to seed. They were so tasty, I wish they would stick around a little longer. But all is not lost. Those flowers produce seeds, and those seeds will grow a new crop of cool season veggies in the fall. Chinese broccoli with seed pods.

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Sunday, October 7, 2012. Yes It is now seven days into the month and I am finally blogging. About the month of October. In most places around the country October means the leaves have changed color and there is the first bite of a frost in the air. There have been some years where we were almost three weeks into October before we saw the end of 100 degree days.