Indoor Gardening Begins

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Weather report for October : Brrrrr. Coldest temps in 5 months. Yesterday was nice and sunny with highs in the upper 60's so I began the enjoyable task of moving the house plants indoors.

I must say I'm very pleased at how the variegated geranium, ' peppermint ' performed after over wintering indoors last season. I've still got coleus and fuschia to pot up and bring inside.

My dining room now looks like a mini greenhouse but I enjoy having all the plants around . My daughter Cathy, the indoor plant expert, informs me that I need a grow lamp for the cacti so I'm off to find a proper one.

Can You Ever Have Too Many Greenbeans?

Ceci's greenbeans

Nah. Can't have too many greenbeans. Love them everywhichaway. We Southerners tend to cook everything to death, including green beans, smothered with bacon grease. Yum.

My good neighbor Ceci planted her bean stalk and it found its way to my side of the trellis. Finders keepers. So far I've collected several large bags of beans.

Green beans seldom show up in Asian cuisine but the Chinese have quite a few good recipes. I made a mess of them last night using soy sauce, sesame oil and sesame seed. I cooked them for only 7 minutes and they were both tender and crunchy.

Think I'll make me a big pot of Brunswick Stew for supper. In addition to green beans, potatoes, tomatoes, and corn the recipe calls for a squirrel and a rabbit. Maybe that rascally rabbit that has been nibbling on my plants in the frontyard and the squirrel that made off with one of my juicy pears.