What is the first clue that this picture, is, indeed, appropriate for Banjo's Garden Pic
Thread? YOU GUESSED IT! The Glass.
These canning jars can also be used as glasses. Beer glasses.
Now, on to the more important discovery, which is this Black Chocolate Stout brewed by the
Brooklyn Brewery. I stumbled upon it (finally) at my local Wegman's store, which has begun
stocking a very egregious selection of IPAs and I can't remember what the heck else
because this damn beer is getting me buzzed, lol. IT'S WAY BETTER THAN GUINNESS, and had I
tasted this Black Chocolate Stout beforehand (4 bottles for 7.99), I would not have bought
my 12-pack of Guinness as well. That's OK, I will buy boatloads of this stuff and drink it
all winter.

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in case your not aware val...oregon gets it's fair share of snow every year.

Dog Bones,
Do you think your plants fare better because of the climate in Oregon versus the climate
in Syracuse?
Most of my veggies petered out end of September while yours still look pretty vigorous in
Novemeber. Also, my winter squash developed many buds but never made it to the plant
stage.
Do you have any pictures of flower beds?

Val, it doesn't matter when you start gardening. Better late than never, I say. My
upbringing was quite different from yours. I grew up in Iowa and never saw an ocean until
I was a teenager. My parents were both from farm families and most of my relatives were
farmers. We always had a garden and I was helping out with it even at a very young age.
At this point, I don't think that I have a choice about my garden ... I must have one.
It's like a very serious addiction. lol!

I was just reminded of someone: Walter Adamski.

You know DogBones, I grew up 4 miles outside Boston, North Shore, on a peninsula so the
ocean is my fave place to live. Never saw a farm or a cow (never went to the zoo as a kid)
until I went to college at Penn State. Never planted a garden until I was in my late 40s.
So, what am I getting at? Your garden just blows me away. What to do with the squash?
Well, at my school, which is inner city and poor, there's a parent, former head of Rolling
60s Crips gang out of St. Louis, who has turned his life around. He's a chef. He's trying
to form a partnership between several churches in the 'hood and a nearby farm called
Matthews 21. This farm gives away its vegetables. He wants to teach poor people how to eat
better by offering them fresh veggies through church kitchens. He needs volunteers to pick
the veggies (tons are just thrown out) and then he will freeze the food and have the
churches give it to the poor. It sounds like a good idea, doesn't it? Otherwise, enter it
(said squash) into a contest, lol.

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Something about this asparagus caught my eye and demanded that I take a picture. Maybe it
was just the way that bright yellow color looks in the sunlight.

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Celery is one of those veggies that often winters over here. There are about 5 plants in
this bed.

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There are still some tomatoes that are partially ripe. But if you look at them closely,
most are deeply cracked and many are getting mushy. Too much rain and too chilly.

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