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I promise to stop obsessing about my plants so much on this blog, but they just make me so dang happy!  There are about twenty fat cherry tomatoes nearing optimum ripeness right now, plus three adorable green bell peppers, an ever-abudant supply of basil, and resurgent growth on the chives…

...and so now, as I've established, I shall eat them.  A simple Caprese salad, with fresh cherry tomatoes right from the plant, fresh basil right from the bush, and fresh mozarella right from the hippie organic market down the street.  A little salt, a little pepper, some olive oil, and some…

I've become a compulsive plant-buyer in the last two months: my house's front steps are now crowded with potted herbs and vegetables.














Unlike the temperate Northwest from which I hail, DC is almost overbearingly hot and humid.  But the plants love it.  My cherry tomato grew by leaps and bounds…