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06/01/2025

Blow cinnamon into your door thank the universe for what you have and say rabbit rabbit rabbit have a beautiful month of June

06/01/2025

Happy June 💚

06/01/2025

05/25/2025

We have Butterfly pea flower starters available!!!

05/25/2025

Clever ideas

05/23/2025

This blackish-greenish stuff is called tomato tar, and it builds up on your hands as you handle the green parts of tomato plants. It's thick and a little sticky. It also takes about 5 serious washes to get it off of your hands.

It turns out that tomato tar is the same wonderful compound that makes a tomato plant smell like a tomato plant. It is an oily secretion produced by hair-like structures called trichomes, and tomatoes have 2 types of trichomes.

The Glandular trichomes of tomatoes can produce a variety of substances, depending on the genetics of the plant. Those substances are thought to influence flavor, deter insects, prevent plant disease, and generally smell incredible.

As a matter of fact, most plants have trichomes. Aromatic herbs like mint often produce their wonderful-smelling oils in glandular trichomes. Trichomes can also be hair shaped without a gland. These can help leaves shed or retain water or deter insects. Trichome shapes can vary widely. In fact, as a last resort, many leaves can be identified by their trichomes.

Tomato trichomes also have another use...If you place a leaf in broth or stew or anything you want to taste like tomato, you can enjoy a very intense tomato flavor. Just add the leaf as you simmer and remove it before you eat - like a bay leaf. The trichomes burst and release their oils into your broth as it simmers.

Now I have to go wash the tomato tar off...

05/22/2025

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