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Primal Stride – Five at Five Day Five

Tuesday, 5 January 2010
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Primal Stride – Five at Five Day Five

Alas, no chameleons or other creatures keeping me company today that I could see. Instead, I’m showing you a picture of the volunteer papaya tree growing in my garden. Five at Five Primal Stride challenge – I crawled out of bed at 6:30am. I drank my electrolytes. I did 19 laps in my garden....
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Primal Stride – Five at Five Day 3

Sunday, 3 January 2010
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Primal Stride – Five at Five Day 3

So much for updating a week’s challenges in one blog entry. I changed my mind, and it’s become one entry a day, apparently. Apparently, I’m too verbal for it to be just one sentence or something. *le sigh* Success on both Primal Stride Five at Five goals. Out of bed at 6:31 (okay, so...
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Project #365 Day 83 Poison for the soul

Saturday, 28 November 2009
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Project #365 Day 83 Poison for the soul

Manioc, also knows as Cassava. My mother-in-law grows it in her garden and has fed it to me at least a couple of times. She gave me two warnings: one, don’t eat it raw, and two, don’t eat ginger the same day I eat manioc. Manioc cannot be eaten raw because it has two...
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Growing – and killing – mint in Sri Lanka

Saturday, 2 May 2009
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Growing – and killing – mint in Sri Lanka

You know how, whenever you bring up that you’re growing your own mint, suddenly all sorts of people pop out of the woodwork and tell you how invasive mint is and it’ll take over the garden? Better plant it in a pot! Well, yes, true enough, but here, it’s not quite like that. I...
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Help Needed Identifying Plant Pests & Problems

Wednesday, 4 February 2009
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Help Needed Identifying Plant Pests & Problems

We don’t have a very large plot of land, so don’t have a very large garden, but we do maximize where we can. Unfortunately, increasingly, we’ve got pest problems. Or, rather, since I’m the Keeper of the Plants, I’ve got a pest problem. And, honestly, I have no idea what these pests are or...
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