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+images:
+  - src: "images/flower-gallery/flowers-05-15.JPG"
+  - src: "images/flower-gallery/flowers-05-28.JPG"
+  - src: "images/flower-gallery/flowers-06-11.JPG"
+  - src: "images/flower-gallery/flowers-07-09.JPG"
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+images:
+  - src: "images/herb-gallery/herb-garden-05-28.JPG"
+  - src: "images/herb-gallery/herb-garden-06-11.JPG"
+  - src: "images/herb-gallery/herb-garden-06-22.JPG"
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+categories = ["plants"]
+date = 2026-07-09T10:00:00-05:00
+description = ""
+draft = false
+slug = "2026-07-09-herb-garden"
+title = "🌿 2026 Herb Garden"
+author = "nicholas"
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+
+All the classic herbs this year. Everything did O.K. except cilantro (or oregano? I do not know) since it rained heavily for a couple weeks and the roof drainage repeatedly dumped a bajillion gallons of water directly on top of this section all at once, drowning them...so not a great yield. It is no great loss if cilantro. 
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+As a child I was occasionally served a certain type of frozen pizza (Totino's Party Pizza, perhaps?) as a special treat, which to me tasted faintly of soap. I would tell my mother this each time, she would taste it for herself insisting that she rinsed her hands of all traces of soap this time, then report tasting nothing unusual. We all shrug and move on, repeat.
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+Much later it occured to me I had the cilantro taste-like-soap gene. Although are we sure it does not taste like "soap" to everyone and we are all just talking past one another? The phenomenology is weak here. Picture an apple, does it have color? Does it shine? Can you rotate it in 6 dimensional hyper-space? What is it like to be a bat? Man, I don't know.
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+
+## Herbs
+Anyway, the herbs:
+- parsley
+- dill
+- cilantro
+- basil
+- chives
+- green onion
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+
+{{< gallerynew name="herb-gallery" >}}
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+We use basically all of these herbs in stuffed grape leaves. Basil on the pizza and spaghetti. Garnish this-and-that with green onion and chives.
+
+## Flowers
+Bonus flower pot this year, assorted flowers:
+
+{{< gallerynew name="flower-gallery" >}}
+
+## Misc
+
+{{< gallerynew name="misc-gallery" >}}
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+images:
+  - src: "images/herb-harvest.JPG"
+  - src: "images/hibiscus-flowers.JPG"
+  - src: "images/pink-flower-close.JPG"
+  - src: "images/birds-flowers.JPG"
+  - src: "images/flowers-bloom.JPG"