Tomatoes

First crop of Sweet 100 tomatoes!

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Perilla

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Perilla is also called by its Asian name of Shiso. Shiso is a great herb that adds nice color and texture to the garden. It’s an annual but volunteers sometimes aggressively! It resembles a giant basil or a coleus as it can reach three feet tall with leaves as large your hand. In the Fall spikes of purple flowers are produced much like a coleus. It reaches about three feet so you could always transplant the seedlings to create a annual hedge.

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The plant is very fragrant. In Asia it is used as a herb but I find it a little bitter. There is a green leaf form but the purple form is the plant that is usually passed along. I remember seeing it as a child in gardens in Beaufort, North Carolina. Due to it heavy reseeding its often a pass along plant.

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Incrediball Hydrangea

Incrediball Hydrangea!

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Incrediball Hydrangea is living up to its name!

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The cool thing about working part time at a bookstore is that…well, you get to see all the new books that come out! You can talk to customers about good books they’ve read and skim through books from all different genres in hopes to find a new and fun read.

Recently this 50 Shades of Grey trilogy has blown up. Gone crazy. Made people mad excited. It’s cool, I get it, and since these books are my store’s biggest seller by far, I knew I had to read it. So, I did…and the book had me hooked.

It’s weird, the entire story is unbelievable, the writing is bad, the male character is seriously messed up and into painful sex, but there I was….reading my sexy book in the park while sipping iced tea, in bed at night while my boyfriend made fun of me, and in between baking times while…

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