Starting Plants To Bring Inside The House

By Cynthia Sax on September 26, 2023

I started some herbs (basil and parsley) outside while the weather is still nice.

I plan to bring these inside the house when temperatures drop.

Why do I start them outside?

I have more space. I can plant a few small containers and then bring in the best of those.

I’ll have those herbs sooner. And I don’t have to turn on my basement grow station just yet.

There are some downsides to this.

Plants will need to acclimatize to the indoors and the different light levels.

There’s also a possibility of insects coming inside with the herbs.


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The Love Of Compost

By Cynthia Sax on September 19, 2023

I love making compost.

I love the act of creating great soil amendments from kitchen scraps and plant clippings and other stuff other people might throw away. I love returning stuff that came from the earth to the earth. That cycle makes me happy.

We use the compost usually two times a year

– in the Fall/Autumn, after we’ve taken all the tomatoes and other plants out of the garden bed and are preparing it for Winter

and

in the Spring, when we’re preparing the garden bed for transplants and seeding.

So we aren’t in a rush to make compost. We have time. And we don’t turn the compost very often. (I poke a pole in it every few days to ensure it has air flow.)

We turned it recently and WOW, we have a lot of great looking ‘soil’ in there.

I’m excited to plant tomatoes and other vegetables in that compost next year!


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This cyborg seeks to vanquish an ancient entity and save his curvy human female.

Euryale made a terrible mistake. She opened a container she shouldn’t have touched and released one of the oldest lifeforms in existence. That all-powerful entity is now utilizing her as its host body and is slowly draining her energy.

Soon, she’ll die.

Euryale has accepted this fate and is determined to use her remaining moments in the universe to save as many lives as she can.

Her plans do NOT include a smoldering-hot, poetry-wielding cyborg willing to decimate entire planets to save her.

While under the control of the Humanoid Alliance, Strive, a K Model cyborg, disobeyed direct orders and refused to kill on their behalf. If he hadn’t escaped their cruel clutches, his defiance would have led to his death.

The male knowingly risked that fate to save the lifespans of complete strangers.

There is nothing he wouldn’t do to protect Euryale. The curvy human female is his genetic match, the one being he is destined to defend.

And she is in danger.

Strive would break every vow, cross every boundary, risk absolutely everything to keep her from harm.

Including battle a deity no one has ever defeated.

***

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Preserving The Harvest

By Cynthia Sax on September 12, 2023

This is a stock photo of cherry tomatoes but our harvest is as abundant. (smiles)

This year, due to the abundance of insects, more specifically slugs, we mostly have the tomatoes to harvest from the garden.

And it has been an AWESOME tomato year. We have so many! Many more than we can eat while they’re fresh.

So we’re freezing them. The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I have a standalone freezer. We are chopping up the tomatoes, placing them in milk bags (this Canadian way of supplying milk makes the BEST freezer bags) and we’re putting them in the freezer. I don’t skin the tomatoes or blanche them. We’re fine with tomato skins in our soups and stir fries.

It is wonderfully reassuring to have a freezer filled with food. (smiles)


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This cyborg seeks to vanquish an ancient entity and save his curvy human female.

Euryale made a terrible mistake. She opened a container she shouldn’t have touched and released one of the oldest lifeforms in existence. That all-powerful entity is now utilizing her as its host body and is slowly draining her energy.

Soon, she’ll die.

Euryale has accepted this fate and is determined to use her remaining moments in the universe to save as many lives as she can.

Her plans do NOT include a smoldering-hot, poetry-wielding cyborg willing to decimate entire planets to save her.

While under the control of the Humanoid Alliance, Strive, a K Model cyborg, disobeyed direct orders and refused to kill on their behalf. If he hadn’t escaped their cruel clutches, his defiance would have led to his death.

The male knowingly risked that fate to save the lifespans of complete strangers.

There is nothing he wouldn’t do to protect Euryale. The curvy human female is his genetic match, the one being he is destined to defend.

And she is in danger.

Strive would break every vow, cross every boundary, risk absolutely everything to keep her from harm.

Including battle a deity no one has ever defeated.

***

Strive For Forever is Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.

It features an inspired cyborg, a joke-cracking scientist, and an all-powerful deity with plans of his own.

Buy Now:

Amazon US:
https://www.amazon.com/Strive-Forever-SciFi-Cyborg-Romance-ebook/dp/B0BSMXYHPC

Amazon UK:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Strive-Forever-SciFi-Cyborg-Romance-ebook/dp/B0BSMXYHPC

Amazon AUS:
https://www.amazon.com.au/Strive-Forever-SciFi-Cyborg-Romance-ebook/dp/B0BSMXYHPC

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https://books.apple.com/us/book/strive-for-forever/id6445480449

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